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Finally: Memory Safety for C Without Rewriting Everything

DEV Community·Attila Torda·about 1 month ago
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SaferCode is a header-only C library that brings modern memory safety patterns directly into your C code – with no new toolchains, no new languages, and no heavy dependencies. It gives you: Arena allocators – fast, linear, and leak-free RAII macros – automatic resource cleanup (yes, in C) String and string builder – length-prefixed, bound-checked strings Sentinel checks – detect stack buffer over/underflows at runtime Dangling pointer tracking – use-after-free? Caught. Memory file abstraction – unified file/memory I/O Structured logging & panic handling – consistent error flow All of this without a C++ compiler or a runtime VM! Here's a quick taste: Arena allocator – no explicit free needed #include "sc_arena.h" ScArena arena = { 0 }; sc_arena_create ( & arena , 1024 ); int * arr = sc_arena_alloc ( & arena , 10 * sizeof ( int )); char * name = sc_arena_alloc ( & arena , 64 ); // ... use memory ...…

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