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miri
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Bytecode VMs in Surprising Places
Miri [0] is an interpreter for the mid-level intermediate representation (MIR) generated by the Rust compiler. MIR is input for more processing steps of the compiler. However miri also runs MIR directly. This means miri is a VM. Of course it's not a bytecode VM, because MIR is not a bytecode AFAIK. I still think that miri is a interesting example.
And why does miri exist?
It is a lot slower. However it can check for some undefined behavior.
[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/miri
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RFC: Rust Has Provenance
Provenance is a dynamic property of pointer values. The actual underlying rules that a program must follow, even when using raw pointers and `unsafe`, are written in terms of provenance. Miri (https://github.com/rust-lang/miri) represents provenance as an actual value stored alongside each pointer's address, so it can check for violations of these rules.
Lifetimes are a static approximation of provenance. They are erased after being validated by the borrow checker, and do not exist in Miri or have any impact on what transformations the optimizer may perform. In other words, the provenance rules allow a superset of what the borrow checker allows.
- Mir: Strongly typed IR to implement fast and lightweight interpreters and JITs
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Running rustc in a browser
There has been discussion of doing this with MIRI, which would be easier than all of rustc.
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Piecemeal dropping of struct members causes UB? (Miri)
This issue has been fixed: https://github.com/rust-lang/miri/issues/2964
- Erroneous UB Error with Miri?
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I've incidentally created one of the fastest bounded MPSC queue
Actually, I've done more advanced tests with MIRI (see https://github.com/rust-lang/miri/issues/2920 for example) which allowed me to fix some issues. I've also made the code compatible with loom, but I didn't found the time yet to write and execute loom tests. That's on the TODO-list, and I need to track it with an issue too.
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Interested in "secure programming languages", both theory and practice but mostly practice, where do I start?
He is one of the big brains behind Miri, which is a interpreter that runs on the MIR (compiler representation between human code and asm/machine code) and detects undefined behavior. Super useful tool for language safety, pretty interesting on its own.
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Formal verification for unsafe code?
I would also run your tests in Miri (https://github.com/rust-lang/miri) to try to cover more bases.
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Ouroboros is also unsound
You can run miri and it will tell you if the given run triggered any undefined behavior. It will not analyze it for every possible use of the code, but checking for the presence of this specific issue using it should be fairly simple.
What are some alternatives?
cntrlr - Simple, async embedded Rust
cons-list - Singly-linked list implementation in Rust
ellalang - A computer programming language interpreter written in Rust
sanitizers - AddressSanitizer, ThreadSanitizer, MemorySanitizer
napi-rs - A framework for building compiled Node.js add-ons in Rust via Node-API
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
Clippy - A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/
Rust-Full-Stack - Rust projects here are easy to use. There are blog posts for them also.
srt-rs - SRT implementation in Rust
rfcs - RFCs for changes to Rust
midi20 - Types and helpers for building MIDI 2 capable software in Rust
nomicon - The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust Programming