Groundbreaking Advance: Safely Compiling C to Rust
2024-12-21
Researchers have developed a novel method for safely compiling C code into Rust. This technique utilizes static analysis and type-directed translation to avoid reliance on Rust's `unsafe` blocks, thus guaranteeing memory safety. The method has been successfully applied to code from the HACL* cryptographic library and EverParse libraries, resulting in an 80,000-line pure Rust verified modern cryptographic library—a first of its kind.
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C compilation