On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 5:43 PM Peter Zijlstra [off-list ref] wrote:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2659.htm

That's just not making any damn sense what so ever. That seems to be
about sprinkling abort() all over the place, which is just total
rubbish.

No, it is not about that. It is semantically a no-op: N2659 is not
about a safe subset of C -- it just triggered discussions about it in
the reflector.

The point is that we think it is important to improve C for the kernel
too. We are not working on bringing Rust to the kernel "just because
we want Rust", but because we believe it has a sizable amount of
advantages that outweigh the costs.

Cheers,
Miguel