Microsoft released lib0xc, a library of safer C standard library-adjacent APIs that reduce memory safety issues like undefined behavior and bounds violations. The library uses compile-time size information and macros to enforce fixed-size data structures as drop-in replacements for unsafe functions. It enables strict compiler flags (-Wall -Wextra -Werror) without portability workarounds.
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Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming
Microsoft releases lib0xc, a drop-in safer C stdlib using compile-time size enforcement to eliminate memory safety bugs and enable strict compiler flags without portability costs.
Saturday, May 2, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline
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