Each item in Wikipedia's [list of types of memory errors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_safety#Types_of_memory_errors) and what Crowbar does to prevent them.

# Access errors

## Buffer overflow

Crowbar addresses buffer overflow with bounds checking.
In C, the type `char *` can point to a single character, a null-terminated string of unknown length, a buffer of fixed size, or nothing at all.
In Crowbar, the type `char *` can only point to either a single character or nothing at all.
If a buffer is declared as `char[50] name;` then it has type `char[50]`, and can be implicitly converted to `(char[50])*`, a pointer-to-50-chars.
If memory is dynamically allocated, it works as follows:

```crowbar
void process(size_t bufferSize, char[bufferSize] buffer) {
    // do some work with buffer, given that we know its size
}

int main(int argc, (char[1024?])[argc] argv) {
    size_t bufferSize = getBufferSize();
    (char[bufferSize])* buffer = malloc(bufferSize);
    process(bufferSize, buffer);
    free(buffer);
}
```

Note that `malloc` as part of the Crowbar standard library has signature `(char[size])* malloc(size_t size);` and so no cast is needed above.
Note as well that the type of `argv` is complicated.
This is because the elements of `argv` have unconstrained size.
TODO figure out if that's the right way to handle that

## Buffer over-read

bounds checking again

## Race condition

uhhhhh 🤷‍♀️

## Page fault

bounds checking, dubious-pointer checking

## Use after free

`free(x);` not followed by `x = NULL;` is a compiler error

# Uninitialized variables

C already warns about these in most cases, so we're good.

## Null pointer dereference

dubious-pointer checking

## Wild pointers

let C handle it

# Memory leak

## Stack exhaustion

uhhhhhh 🤷‍♀️

## Heap exhaustion

that counts as error handling, just the `malloc`-shaped kind

## Double free

this is just use-after-free but the use is calling free on it

## Invalid free

don't do that

## Mismatched free

how does that even happen

## Unwanted aliasing

uhhh don't do that?