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USENIX 2002 Annual Conference - Technical Program Abstract
Cyclone: A safe dialect of C
Trevor Jim, AT&T Labs Research; Greg Morrisett, Dan Grossman, Michael Hicks, James Cheney, Yanling Wang, Cornell University
Abstract
Cyclone is a safe dialect of C. It has been designed from the
ground up to prevent the buffer overflows, format string attacks,
and memory management errors that are common in C programs, while
retaining C's syntax and semantics. This paper examines safety
violations enabled by C's design, and shows how Cyclone avoids them,
without giving up C's hallmark control over low-level details such
as data representation and memory management.
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