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Introducing Amazing CMake Support in C++Builder 12.2

C++Builder and RAD Studio 12.2 bring a fantastic feature for C++: full CMake support for the new Win64 Modern toolchain. It’s available in GetIt now, and it comes with some amazing demos. You can build VCL apps, FMX apps, packages, DLLs, console apps, as you’d expect… but, and this demonstrates the power and compatibility and quality of the new toolchain in C++Builder, you can even build…
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Buffer Overflow in the C/C++ RTL

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…
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How to achieve common tasks with the new Clang toolchain in 12.1

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’…
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[Yukon Beta Blog] C++ and Visual Assist in RAD Studio 12.0

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…
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