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You should add a disclaimer that you are the CEO of Fil-C. /s

In the context of this vulnerability, I doubt memory safety would have made much of a difference.

This is a great reminder though, currently doing a full userspace replacement on my 3D printer and Fil-C might be just what I need for the irreplaceable C parts.

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Type confusion, leads to using an object in memory with the wrong type, that means accessing memory with a different layout, like an out of bounds buffer.

So I think memory safety does matter in that case.

How would memory safety have not made a difference?

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