Memory Safety Bugs in Rust Standard Library

19 points by expurple 17 hours ago on lobsters | 1 comment

ssokolow | 14 hours ago

Given how effective I've been at avoiding big sources of it like A.I. writing and pre-LLM LinkedIn, I think this is the first time I've run into a technically-focused document that I wanted to ask an A.I. to summarize for me.

Scroll, scroll... "At Microsoft FORGE Lab, we ..." scroll, scroll... I spent far too much time sifting the "What bugs did they identify?" wheat from the irrelevant or "The reader doesn't even know what a computer is" chaff.

TL;DR: If you want to skip to the interesting bits without a long introduction to who Microsoft's AI research lab is, what Rust is, how much Microsoft likes Rust, the concept of unsafe, etc., Ctrl+F for # to get to the headers that cite the issues they opened as a result.