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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

To talk about C++’s current safety problems and solutions well, I need to include the context of the broad landscape of security and safety threats facing all software. Many of the most damaging recent security breaches happened to code written in MSLs (e.g., tl;dr: I don’t want C++ to limit what I can express efficiently.

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NUnit Tutorial: Parameterized Tests With Examples

DZone

Cross-browser testing has become an integral part of the test process to ensure the product experience and behavior remain consistent across different combinations of web browsers, devices, and operating systems. This is where a parameterized test can be beneficial as it enables testing the code/methods against different input values.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 1?—?Starting Out

Adrian Cockcroft

That got me a job at Cambridge Consultants Ltd as a software engineer writing code (mostly in C) for embedded real time signal processing and control systems. It also got me a side job looking after the new Unix systems they started to use, and in 1984 we were one of the first customers of Sun Microsystems.

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CheriABI: enforcing valid pointer provenance and minimizing pointer privilege in the POSIX C run-time environment

The Morning Paper

CheriABI: enforcing valid pointer provenance and minimizing pointer privilege in the POSIX C run-time environment Davis et al., abstract capabilities are constructed only through legitimate provenance chains of operations, successively reducing permissions from initial maximally permissive capabilities provided at machine reset.

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OneAgent release notes version 1.207

Dynatrace

Upcoming Operating systems support changes. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 February 2021. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 May 2021. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 June 2021.

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On Technique

O'Reilly

GitHub Copilot (based on a model named Codex , which is derived from GPT-3) generates code in a number of programming languages, based on comments that the user writes. Going in the other direction, GPT-3 has proven to be surprisingly good at explaining code. But it’s obvious where this is trending. But I don’t know if that’s true.

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Segmentation Fault – A DBA Perspective

Percona

In order to understand “segmentation fault,” it is a must to know the basic idea of segmentation and its implementation in C programming. Here, memory is divided into equal sizes of partitions where the code of a program resides. ” Below is a line of code that results in a segmentation fault on PostgreSQL 13.4