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`unsafe` the keyword vs unsafe the concept. Lots of `unsafe` code is safe when used through a safe wrapper. Verifying that is the duty of the programmer. The compiler can't prove it, but quite often the programmer can.

IMO it's good practice to provide a comment with such proof for every `unsafe` block.

So `unsafe` does not imply unsound, but unsound does imply `unsafe`.




This is what I was trying to say. Unsafe doesn't imply exploitability, at all.




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