We recently identified a potential buffer overflow in the C/C++ runtime library (RTL). Although this is an issue that was introduced to the code in 1997 with no exploitation since its introduction, we are publishing a notification and a fix for safety and openness, out of an abundance of caution.
Issue information:
Affects _wgetcurdir, _wsearchstr, plus the “_t” variants _tgetdcwd and…
RAD Studio 12.1 launched a few weeks ago, and while it was mostly quality-focused it added some key new features. The most major is an IDE productivity enhancement, one we’ve wanted to add for some time and which can be extremely useful… split editor views.
Where…
We’ve had a couple of support requests that are along the lines of, ‘I’m upgrading to the new Win64 Modern C++ toolchain. But when I run my app built in Release mode, it crashes, and it’s hard to see why.’
First chance exception at…
How to achieve common tasks with the new Clang toolchain in 12.1
The new Clang toolchain is here! RAD Studio and C++Builder 12.1 are shipping the entirely revised, wholly updated C++ compiler, linker, STL, runtime, and more – which you can also use in parallel with the old Win64 toolchain to ease upgrading until we remove the previous legacy toolchain in future.
We know this is a ‘version 1’…
The new Clang Toolchain in C++Builder 12.1!
RAD Studio 12.1 has big news: we have released the first version of our new Clang-based toolchain! This is a complete revision of the entire technology stack, and provides a solid, modern, ‘done the right way’ foundation for…
On Thursday 9 November we held the launch webinar for Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio 12. We had an unprecedented number of attendees, to the point of doing a rerun on Nov 30th. This QA represents questions raised in both. If you were unable to attend take a look at our…
This blog post is based on a pre-release version of the RAD Studio software and it has been written with specific permission by Embarcadero. No feature is committed until the product GA release.
RAD Studio 12 is just around the corner, with our release webinar this Thursday! Back in August, we gave a preview webinar of what is being worked on internally for C++, covering a preview of the…
This blog post is based on a pre-release version of the RAD Studio software and it has been written with specific permission by Embarcadero. No feature is committed until the product GA release.
RAD Studio 12 is just around the corner, and we have exciting news to share!
In…
A few weeks ago we released RAD Studio and C++Builder 11.3, a quality release that’s been met with wide praise as the best of any recent version. This builds on several releases of 11.x, including our dedicated C++ quality release, 11.1.5. With that quality background, we…
Solving an interesting issue upgrading a project from Classic to Clang.
A recent blog comment asked for help where a Clang project was linking to vcle.lib, but the library did not exist in the Clang linking path (lib/win32c/release): it’s present only for the classic compiler in lib/win32/release. (Note the C in win32c, meaning Clang.) Why? If you see this error, how do you resolve it and…
