id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	lang	patch	platform
1698	Investigate SAFECode	petdance		"http://safecode.cs.illinois.edu/

The purpose of the SAFECode project is to enable program safety without garbage collection and with minimal run-time checks using static analysis when possible and run-time checks when necessary. SAFECode defines a code representation with minimal semantic restrictions designed to enable static enforcement of safety, using aggressive compiler techniques developed in this project.

SAFECode is designed to provide the following safety guarantees:

    * Array bounds checking (prevents pointers from overflowing from one memory object into another)
    * Loads and stores only access valid memory objects
    * Type safety for a subset of memory objects proven to be type-safe
    * Sound operational semantics in the face of dangling pointer errors (i.e., all safety guarantees hold even when dangling pointers are dereferenced).
    * Optional dangling pointer detection (induces more overhead)

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