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What does "verified memory safe" mean?

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Anthropic and Theorem announced they used AI to generate formal proofs that programs built from many open-source libraries are free of bugs that AddressSanitizer (ASan) can detect, by reducing the problem to proving equivalence with an ASan-instrumented version that never crashes.

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