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Rust's novel type system has proved an attractive target for verification and program analysis tools, due to the rich guarantees it provides for controlling aliasing and mutability. However, fully understanding, extracting and exploiting…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zachary Grannan , Aurel Bílý , Jonáš Fiala , Jasper Geer , Markus de Medeiros , Peter Müller , Alexander J. Summers

Ownership is the concept of tracking aliases and mutations to data, useful for both memory safety and system design. The Rust programming language implements ownership via the borrow checker, a static analyzer that extends the core type…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Will Crichton

To provide flexibility and low-level interaction capabilities, the unsafe tag in Rust is essential in many projects, but undermines memory safety and introduces Undefined Behaviors (UBs) that reduce safety. Eliminating these UBs requires a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Renshuang Jiang , Pan Dong , Zhenling Duan , Yu Shi , Xiaoxiang Fang , Yan Ding , Jun Ma , Shuai Zhao , Zhe Jiang

In Rust, unsafe code is the sole source of potential undefined behaviors. To avoid misuse, Rust developers should clarify the safety properties for each unsafe API. However, the community currently lacks a key standard for safety…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zihao Rao , Jiping Zhou , Hongliang Tian , Xin Wang , Hui Xu

We present our ongoing work on developing an end-to-end verified Rust compiler based on CompCert. It provides two guarantees: one is semantics preservation from Rust to assembly, i.e., the behaviors of source code includes the behaviors of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jinhua Wu , Yuting Wang , Liukun Yu , Linglong Meng

Rust claims to advance industrial programming by bridging the gap between low-level systems programming and high-level application programming. At the heart of the argument that this enables programmers to build more reliable and efficient…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Aaron Weiss , Olek Gierczak , Daniel Patterson , Amal Ahmed

C-to-Rust transpilation is essential for modernizing legacy C code while enhancing safety and interoperability with modern Rust ecosystems. However, no dataset currently exists for evaluating whether a system can transpile C into safe Rust…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Anirudh Khatry , Robert Zhang , Jia Pan , Ziteng Wang , Qiaochu Chen , Greg Durrett , Isil Dillig

Dancing Links connotes an optimization to a circular doubly-linked list data structure implementation which provides for fast list element removal and restoration. The Dancing Links optimization is used primarily in fast algorithms to find…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-16 David S. Hardin

Despite extensive usage in high-performance, low-level systems programming applications, C is susceptible to vulnerabilities due to manual memory management and unsafe pointer operations. Rust, a modern systems programming language, offers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Manish Shetty , Naman Jain , Adwait Godbole , Sanjit A. Seshia , Koushik Sen

Rust is a modern systems language focused on performance and reliability. Complementing Rust's promise to provide "fearless concurrency", developers frequently exploit asynchronous message passing. Unfortunately, arbitrarily ordering…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Zak Cutner , Nobuko Yoshida , Martin Vassor

Bento provides a new approach to developing file systems, with safety and high-velocity development in mind. This is achieved by using Rust, a modern and memory-safe systems programming language, and by providing a framework to run a single…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Peter-Jan Gootzen , Animesh Trivedi

C/C++ is a prevalent programming language. Yet, it suffers from significant memory and thread-safety issues. Recent studies have explored automated translation of C/C++ to safer languages, such as Rust. However, these studies focused mostly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Biruk Tadesse , Vikram Nitin , Mazin Salah , Baishakhi Ray , Marcelo d'Amorim , Wesley Assunção

Developing robust and high performance quantum software is challenging due to the dynamic nature of existing Python-based frameworks, which often suffer from runtime errors and scalability bottlenecks. In this work, we present LogosQ, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Shiwen An , Jiayi Wang , Konstantinos Slavakis

As an emerging programming language, Rust has rapidly gained popularity and recognition among developers due to its strong emphasis on safety. It employs a unique ownership system and safe concurrency practices to ensure robust safety.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yu Luo , Han Zhou , Mengtao Zhang , Dylan De La Rosa , Hafsa Ahmed , Weifeng Xu , Dianxiang Xu

Migrating existing C programs into Rust is increasingly desired, as Rust offers superior memory safety while maintaining C's high performance. However, vastly different features between C and Rust--e.g., distinct definitions and usages of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xuemeng Cai , Jiakun Liu , Xiping Huang , Yijun Yu , Haitao Wu , Chunmiao Li , Bo Wang , Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Lingxiao Jiang

Capability-based memory isolation is a promising new architectural primitive. Software can access low-level memory only via capability handles rather than raw pointers, which provides a natural interface to enforce security restrictions.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jason Zhijingcheng Yu , Conrad Watt , Aditya Badole , Trevor E. Carlson , Prateek Saxena

Context: The integration of Rust into kernel development is a transformative endeavor aimed at enhancing system security and reliability by leveraging Rust's strong memory safety guarantees. Objective: We aim to find the current advances in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Shane K. Panter , Nasir U. Eisty

Developers rely on the static safety guarantees of the Rust programming language to write secure and performant applications. However, Rust is frequently used to interoperate with other languages which allow design patterns that conflict…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Ian McCormack , Joshua Sunshine , Jonathan Aldrich

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a fundamental tool for building high-performance computing (HPC) applications, enabling efficient communication across distributed systems. Despite its widespread adoption, MPI's low-level interface…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Nafees Iqbal , Jed Brown

We present Crux, a cross-language verification tool for Rust and C/LLVM. Crux targets bounded, intricate pieces of code that are difficult for humans to get right: for example, cryptographic modules and serializer / deserializer pairs. Crux…