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Formal semantics, not risk-based trade-offs, should ground memory safety
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The article explains operational, denotational, and axiomatic semantics as practical tools for reasoning about memory safety.
For engineers working in C, C++, or Rust, this connects formal semantics to memory safety, offering a principled alternative to risk-based security trade-offs. It argues that memory safety is a programming language topic, not just a security concern.
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The article presents three formal semantics: operational, denotational, and axiomatic.
It argues that memory safety is a programming language topic, not just a security concern.
It connects developers to formal semantics as a practical way to reason about memory safety.
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