On Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:11:54 +0200 山卡洛 <[email protected]> wrote:
> What do you people think about the mechanisms implemented by Fil-C ( > https://fil-c.org/)? OpenBSD itself is not shy on adding security > functionality in the compiler and libc. Is this fat-pointer and GC > mechanism too much? I dont argument FOR Fil-C here; i only ask for the > opinion of a group where experts are very likely to be present. That's overkill... Fil-C mechanisms break a lot of things, including FFI, because they change the sizes of pointers in memory. OpenBSD relies on proactive protection and clean source code. There's no point in dragging around an entire runtime just to be “safe.” With best regards, Nazarenko Mykyta
