David LeBlanc's Web Log

My favorite programming geek hobby being integer overflows, this caught my eye – "gcc silently discards some wraparound checks" http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/162289 Basically, what it says is that code which looks like this: ============ snip...

Seems my last post met with some objections – somewhat rightfully so, as I mischaracterized one of Tom's points – he never advocated just not checking for allocations, but instead to use an allocator that has a non-returning error handler – though it...

Must be synchronicity. I started out the day with a really interesting mail from Chris Wysopal talking about how allocations can go wrong, fun with signed int math, and the new[] operator. Once I got done responding to Chris, I then notice Robert Hensing...

Someone pointed out that it isn't sufficient to check for whether the pointer math wrapped, but that we also need to check that the resulting pointer is in our buffer. They then came to the possibly erroneous conclusion that really all you had to do was...