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-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C

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Summary

Clang's -fbounds-safety design aims to enforce bounds safety in C by attaching bounds annotations to pointers and using wide pointers to enable runtime or compile-time checks. The document describes the programming model, available annotations, default pointer behavior, ABI considerations, portability with non-supporting toolchains, and potential applications, while noting that the feature is not yet user-available and is subject to ongoing development.

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