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Safety Beyond Memory: The Many Dimensions of Safety in C++

Safety is one of the most frequently used and at the same time least precisely defined terms in today’s programming language debate. Hardly any concept is more often instrumentalized and less often examined in its full scope. In public discourse, safety is commonly reduced to memory safety, occasionally supplemented by the promise that entire classes of errors can be eliminated through language…
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Is C++ Too Complex?

The ongoing discussion about the future of C++ is characterized by two closely connected themes: complexity and safety. Both concepts are frequently oversimplified in public discourse, often reduced solely to memory management. Yet safety encompasses far more: functional…
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QuickReport Is Back!

QuickReport is a much-loved reporting solution for RAD Studio with Delphi and C++Builder. It hit a crisis a few years back when the lead developer passed away unexpectedly. Now, with the help of Embarcadero Partner Barnsten, QuickReport is back and ready to work with the…
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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…