"Safe" C++ compilers (was: Re: Why do we still assemble?)

Josh N. Pritikin (jpab+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote:
: There is definitely a need for a C/C++ compiler
: optimized for safety and compile-time. I would switch in a second.


So would I. I prefer C++ to Pascal, but when I have to spend time
tracking down a bug that Pascal would have caught on the first execution
(such as an array subscript out of bounds or dereferencing a NULL
pointer), I wonder why there aren't settings in the compilers for checking
these sorts of things.


I'd rather the compiler check anything it (reasonably) can and be willing
to generate (possibly slow) code to check anything it can at run-time.


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