Comment by 1718627440
3 months ago
C does have the concept of lifetimes. There is just no syntax to specify it, so it is generally described along all the other semantic details of the API. And no it is not the same as for Rust, which causes clashes with the Rust people.
What clashes?
I think there was a discussion in the Linux kernel between a kernel maintainer and the Rust people, which started by the Rust people demanding formal semantics, so that they could encode it in Rust, and the subsystem maintainer unwilling to do that.
Ah, I thought you were talking about core language semantics in C.
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“The rust people” were also kernel maintainers.
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