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Can TrapC Fix C and C++ Memory Safety Issues?


"TrapC, a fork of the C language, is being developed as a potential solution for memory safety issues that have hindered the C and C++ languages," reports InfoWorld. But also being developed is a compiler named trapc "intended to be implemented as a cybersecurity compiler for C and C++ code, said d...

Also, TrapC reuses a few code safety features from C++, notably member functions, constructors, destructors, and the new keyword. "TrapC Memory Safe Pointers will not buffer overrun and will not segfault," Rowe told the ISO C Committee standards body meeting, according to the Register. The TRASEC trapc cybersecurity compiler with AI code reasoning is expected to release as free open source software sometime in 2025."

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