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rust-hg-core: move from `ouroboros` to `self_cell`
`ouroboros` has a fundamental soundness problem that, while not applicable
today, could become applicable given new compiler optimizations.ยน
`self_cell` is a crate that accomplishes a lot of the same things that
`ouroboros` did while remaining sound (that is, unless a new soundness issue
is discovered) by not assuming as much about the memory layout of the program.
`self_cell` has been scrutinized heavily in the past few months by very
competent people, some from the compiler team and has shown no weaknesses
for a while, with a 1.0 stable release coming out a couple months ago.
Our internal API is exactly the same, this is just an implementation detail.
To reiterate, no actual soundness issue was found with our use of `ouroboros`,
but there might be evolutions of `rustc` (or even a future separate compiler)
that could generate unsound code.
[1] https://github.com/joshua-maros/ouroboros/issues/88
author | Raphaël Gomès <rgomes@octobus.net> |
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date | Mon, 12 Jun 2023 23:41:28 +0200 |
parents | c5912e35d06d |
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