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undefined-behaviourI recently came across an interesting FFI situation, which I wanted to understand a bit better. Now I’d like to share what I found in the hopes of making everyone a better programmer.
This post is about undefined behavior, or UB. Specifically UB in Rust at the language level. This basically means we’re going to do something that the compiler is free to assume we never did. That sounds bad, right? How can the compiler just assume we didn’t write the code that we wrote? Well, it is as bad as it sounds, even if it doesn’t always cause bad things to happen.