Bug#465813: ITP: cyclone -- Safe dialect of C
Package: wnpp
Owner: François-Denis Gonthier <[email protected]>
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : cyclone
Version : 1.0/CVS
Upstream Author : Dan Grossman, Trevor Jim, Greg Morrisett et al.
* URL or Web page : http://cyclone.thelanguage.org
* License : GPL (+ BSD alike for some files)
Description : Safe dialect of C
Cyclone is a compiler for a language close to the C language. It adds
several feature to improve the safety on the C language. Such features
include:
- pattern matching,
- algebraic datatypes
- exceptions
- region-based memory management
- optional garbage collection.
One of cyclone aims is to produce programs that are more secure than C
programs by eliminating buffers overflows, double free bugs, dangling
pointers access, etc.
For Cyclone-l readers, this is a "Intent To Package" for the Debian
GNU/Linux distribution. It is meant to say that there is somebody
working on packaging a particular software for the distribution.
If you have any comments or questions, I'll be happy to answer.
F-D
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