more academic pointers

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@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ I hope that by the end of this post, you will agree with me on both of these sta
 ## Pointers Are Complicated
 
 What is the problem with "pointers are just integers"?  Let us consider the following example:<br>
 ## Pointers Are Complicated
 
 What is the problem with "pointers are just integers"?  Let us consider the following example:<br>

-(I am using C++ code here mostly because writing unsafe code is easier in C++, and unsafe code is where these problems really show up. C has all the same issues, as does unsafe Rust.)
+(I am using C++ code here mostly because writing unsafe code is easier in C++ than in Rust, and unsafe code is where these problems really show up. C has all the same issues, as does unsafe Rust.)

 {% highlight c++ %}
 int test() {
     auto x = new int[8];
 {% highlight c++ %}
 int test() {
     auto x = new int[8];


@@ -152,6 +152,8 @@ We mostly just ignore the problem in miri and opportunistically do as much as we
 A full definition of a language like C++ or Rust of course cannot take this shortcut, it has to explain what really happens here.
 To my knowledge, no satisfying solution exists, but academic research is [getting closer](http://sf.snu.ac.kr/publications/llvmtwin.pdf).
 
 A full definition of a language like C++ or Rust of course cannot take this shortcut, it has to explain what really happens here.
 To my knowledge, no satisfying solution exists, but academic research is [getting closer](http://sf.snu.ac.kr/publications/llvmtwin.pdf).
 

+**Update:** This was by no means meant to be an exhaustive list of academic research on C in general. I do not know of other work that focuses directly on the interplay of integer-pointer casts and optimizations, but other noteworthy work on formalizing C includes [KCC](https://github.com/kframework/c-semantics), [Robbert Krebber's PhD thesis](https://robbertkrebbers.nl/thesis.html) and [Cerberus](https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cerberus/). **/Update**
+

 This is why pointers are not simple, either.
 
 ## From Pointers to Bytes
 This is why pointers are not simple, either.
 
 ## From Pointers to Bytes