Using Pit to improve security in low-level programs

Pit (Pedersen on http://pit.devpit.org, 2008; Pedersen and Reza in ISOLA ’06: proceedings of the second international symposium on leveraging applications of formal methods, verification and validation (ISOLA 2006), pp. 111–118, 2006) is a new language for low-level programming, designed to be a self-hosting alternative to C. The novelty is that it supports automated memory management without excluding manual memory management, and without hindering key features associated with low-level programming, such as raw pointers, inline assembly code, and precise control over execution.