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Sure, but those are lists of weaknesses, not of bugs. Of course most of them would be memory errors. A program can play entirely by the rules and still display incorrect behavior. Consider for example the Mars Climate Orbiter bug. No amount of memory safety could have prevented that (although C++ could have been able to encode the unit information in its type system).


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