David LeBlanc's Web Log : September 2008

SafeInt 3 on CodePlex!: I have finally found a stable place to keep SafeInt. It can now be found at http://www.codeplex.com/SafeInt . In terms of the code, this is exactly the same stuff as we're using internally. This version is documented a little better than the master copy Read More...
Posted 30 September 08 02:58 by david_leblanc | 1 Comments
Chrome Getting a Bit Rusty: Put this one in the rant category – I'm honored that Google has been paying attention to my blog and decided to use my sandboxing approach to try and make their app more secure. Very cool stuff, and they did some interesting things that I want to better Read More...
Posted 12 September 08 03:34 by david_leblanc | 2 Comments
Filed under Secure Development
Why can't you comment?: This is because $#@!!!! spammers can screw up anything. I have to disallow anonymous comments, or I get a bazillion blog spam comments, I check comments a week later, and there's 200 of these that I can only delete 10-20 at a time. Annoying to say the Read More...
Posted 08 September 08 06:08 by david_leblanc | 0 Comments
Filed under Other
Ptrdiff_t is evil: Well, not really, but here's a code problem that confounded some really smart devs – and it looks so simple! void IncPtr( unsigned int cElements ) { if( m_pMax - m_pCurrent > cElements ) m_pCurrent += cElements; else throw; } OK, so here's the question Read More...
Posted 02 September 08 04:15 by david_leblanc | 3 Comments
Filed under Integer Overflows

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