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A Kernel Recipes talk explores reducing undefined behavior in C

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The talk examines undefined behavior in C and whether the language could become memory-safe. C’s limits and possible paths to safer systems code matter to engineers maintaining low-level software.

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- Martin Uecker gave a Kernel Recipes talk about undefined behavior in C.
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- The talk considered whether C could eventually be made into a memory-safe language.

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