Re: C aggregate passing (Rust kernel policy)

[Ventura Jack]

>Gcc used to initialize it all, but as of gcc-15 it apparently says
>"Oh, the standard allows this crazy behavior, so we'll do it by
default".
>
>Yeah. People love to talk about "safe C", but compiler people have
>actively tried to make C unsafer for decades. The C standards
>committee has been complicit. I've ranted about the crazy C alias
>rules before.

Unsafe Rust actually has way stricter rules for aliasing than C. For
you and others who don't like C's aliasing, it may be best to avoid
unsafe Rust.