Re: Fil-C evaluation

On Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:11:54 +0200
=E5=B1=B1=E5=8D=A1=E6=B4=9B <[email protected]> wrote:

> What do you people think about the mechanisms implemented by Fil-C (
> https://fil-c.org/)? OpenBSD itself is not shy on adding security
> functionality in the compiler and libc. Is this fat-pointer and GC
> mechanism too much? I dont argument FOR Fil-C here; i only ask for the
> opinion of a group where experts are very likely to be present.

That's overkill... Fil-C mechanisms break a lot of things, including FFI, b=
ecause
they change the sizes of pointers in memory. OpenBSD relies on proactive=20
protection and clean source code. There's no point in dragging around an en=
tire=20
runtime just to be =E2=80=9Csafe.=E2=80=9D

With best regards,
Nazarenko Mykyta