What about adding safer checked buffer types as part of the standard library? A ...

Rickasaurus on March 17, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Would Rust have prevented Heartbleed? Another look

What about adding safer checked buffer types as part of the standard library? A fixed buffer for things of "up to this size" where it remembers how big the current thing is.

Seems like it would be a pretty easy problem to fix if you're not playing fast and loose.

steveklabnik on March 17, 2015 [–]

That's what Vectors, slices, and arrays already do. See that v.len()?