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11-year-old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

Original: 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

Developers are discussing newly reported unsoundness bugs in the Rust compiler's borrow checker that are said to have existed for roughly 11 years. The issues, tracked publicly on the rust-lang GitHub repository, could in principle allow safe Rust code to exhibit undefined behaviour. The discussion centres on how such long-lived soundness holes survived and what they mean for Rust's safety guarantees.

Why now: Rust's reputation rests on memory safety guarantees, so discovery of decade-old unsoundness bugs draws intense interest from the programming community.

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