Comment by pizlonator
5 hours ago
> You have to understand that Fil-C primarily exists as a marketing stunt.
What a bitter way to analyze a technology.
> under some circumstances Fil-C considers it legal to read a value from a totally different, possibly-inaccessible pointer when dereferencing an unrelated pointer
Fil-C does not consider such a thing to be legal.
You can only access capabilities that you legitimately loaded from the heap, from other capabilities you legitimately loaded, and so on. So, if you access a pointer, it's because you had access to the capability.
> You aren't supposed to actually use it.
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