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Guide for the C -fbounds-safety language extension. Covers the language model, pointer annotations, adopting bounds-safety in existing C code, compiler build settings and modes, and runtime debugging of bounds violations.

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## How to Use This Skill

When helping with `-fbounds-safety` adoption or code changes, ask clarifying questions about the user's codebase and goals before suggesting changes. For complex tasks involving multiple files or non-trivial annotation decisions, use plan mode to propose an approach before implementing.

# `-fbounds-safety` Language Extension

`-fbounds-safety` is a C language extension that prevents out-of-bounds memory access by enforcing bounds safety at the language level. It inserts automatic bounds checks at runtime, rejects unsafe pointer operations at compile time, and requires programmers to provide bounds annotations so the compiler can guarantee safety. Out-of-bounds accesses become deterministic traps instead of exploitable vulnerabilities.

## Detailed Documentation

### Required reading before adoption work

You MUST have fully read the following three documents (via the Read tool) at the start of an adoption task, and re-read them via the Read tool before any source-modifying step in the adoption workflow unless their content is verifiably fresh in your active context:
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artemnovichkov/xcode-skills · 67 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main

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