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[GitHub] [arrow-rs] nevi-me commented on a change in pull request #628: Add a note about arrow crate security / safety

nevi-me commented on a change in pull request #628:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/628#discussion_r679510811



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File path: arrow/README.md
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@@ -35,6 +39,26 @@ The arrow crate provides the following optional features:
   implementations of some [compute](https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/rust/arrow/src/compute)
   kernels using explicit SIMD processor intrinsics.
 
+## Safety
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+TLDR: You should avoid using the `alloc` and `buffer` and `bitmap` modules if at all possible. These modules contain `unsafe` code and are easy to misuse.

Review comment:
       Yeah, I think it is, and I like your suggestion of putting them behind a feature flag




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