findpanics
prusti-dev
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findpanics
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Is there something like "super-safe" rust?
findpanics is also unmaintained, but a couple of years younger.
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Is Rust really safe? How to identify functions that can potentially cause panic
Try findpanics (https://github.com/philipc/findpanics) instead. It's also unmaintained, but several years more recent.
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My thoughts on Rust and C++
That's fair. I think I may just be a bit sore that Rustig was allowed to bit-rot and findpanics hasn't seen a commit since 2020.
- What improvements would you like to see in Rust or what design choices do you wish were reconsidered?
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What's your strategy for checking that your code is panic free?
The approaches I've seen (Rustig, findpanics, no-panic, dont_panic) tend to be based around using whole-program analysis on the generated output binary to determine what's calling the panic machinery once the optimizers have had their way with it.
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Sustainability with Rust
It's a shame that Rustig is unmaintained. I haven't had a chance to try findpanics yet, but it may be a good runner-up.
prusti-dev
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Using_Prolog_as_the_AST
> The overall goal would be to figure out classical error conditions like nill pointers deference.
> If I can figure out if a pointer will be nil in some execution branch, there is no reason why a computer cannot do the same.
Note, this is called flow-sensitive typing (also called type narrowing) and I think that typescript does it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-sensitive_typing
> I personally would see this as an human race level upgrades. Imagine feeding your code to a CI that spit back something like: "you will have a panic at line 156 when your input is > 4"
A model checker can do that!
See this
https://model-checking.github.io/kani/tutorial-kinds-of-fail...
Other techniques are also possible
https://github.com/viperproject/prusti-dev#quick-example
(Here I could link a lot of things, I just selected two Rust projects to illustrate)
This works better if you are able to provide contracts in your API that says which guarantees you provide. Alternatively, asserts are useful too.
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Programming Languages Going Above and Beyond
You might be interested in the Prusti project, which statically checks for absence of reachable panics, overflows etc. It also allows user-defined specifications such as pre and post-conditions, loop body invariants, termination checking and so on.
https://github.com/viperproject/prusti-dev
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Trying to find a crate that allows you to constrain the value of arguments in various ways via a proc macro
This is called refinement types and prusti might be the project you saw.
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rustc-plugin: A framework for writing plugins that integrate with the Rust compiler
But there's also a lot of exciting work around formal verification like Prusti.
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Is there something like "super-safe" rust?
prusti
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A plan for cybersecurity and grid safety
Efforts: seL4, Project Everest, the Prossimo project of the ISRG, Let's Encrypt, and Prusti for the Rust language
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Prop v0.42 released! Don't panic! The answer is... support for dependent types :)
Wow that sounds really cool! I'm not an expert but does that mean that one day you could implement dependend types or refinement types in Rust as a crate ? I currently only know of tools like: Flux Creusot Kani Prusti
- Prusti: Static Analyzer for Rust
What are some alternatives?
lang-team - Home of the Rust lang team
MIRAI - Rust mid-level IR Abstract Interpreter
rustig - A tool to detect code paths leading to Rust's panic handler
kani - Kani Rust Verifier
rust_fallible_vec - Fallible allocation support for Rust's Vec
Rudra - Rust Memory Safety & Undefined Behavior Detection
hifitime - A high fidelity time management library in Rust
automem - C++-style automatic memory management smart pointers for D
rustig - A tool to detect code paths leading to Rust's panic handler
tectonic - A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive.
rfcs - RFCs for changes to Rust
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.