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2019-09-26
Elliott, A. S., Ruef, A., Hicks, M., Tarditi, D..  2018.  Checked C: Making C Safe by Extension. 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Development (SecDev). :53-60.

This paper presents Checked C, an extension to C designed to support spatial safety, implemented in Clang and LLVM. Checked C's design is distinguished by its focus on backward-compatibility, incremental conversion, developer control, and enabling highly performant code. Like past approaches to a safer C, Checked C employs a form of checked pointer whose accesses can be statically or dynamically verified. Performance evaluation on a set of standard benchmark programs shows overheads to be relatively low. More interestingly, Checked C introduces the notions of a checked region and bounds-safe interfaces.