Programming Languages
The choice of programming language for your Next Big Project can be difficult. Even worse, it can seem easy… when it is not. On the one hand, strictly speaking, you can write any program in any of Turing-complete languages. On the other hand, that doesn’t mean it will be easy. In fact, writing a program in a poorly suitable programming language could be extremely difficult.
A Usable C++ Dialect that is Safe Against Memory Corruption
March 14, 2018 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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we DID get a perfectly usable C++ dialect which is also 100% safe against memory corruption and against memory leaks.
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we can (and often SHOULD) have different approaches to safety of the Reactor::react() and the rest of the code.
Filed under: On.ProgrammingProgramming Languages
Read moreC++: Thoughts on Dealing with Signed/Unsigned Mismatch
March 6, 2018 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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we’re just narrowly avoiding a disaster without understanding how close we were
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there is a chance that intuitive::lt MIGHT be a good thing to make behaviour of our C++ code to correspond better to our-expectations-when-we’re-reading-it
Filed under: On.ProgrammingTips and TricksProgramming LanguagesOptimizations
Read moreHow to Report C++ Compiler Bugs
February 27, 2018 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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the bug MUST be reproducible
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did you know that in a case of a signed integer overflow, compiler is allowed to generate code which formats your hard drive?
Filed under: On.ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesOtherReports
Read moreC++17 Compiler Bug Hunt: Very First Results (12 bugs reported, 3 already fixed)
February 20, 2018 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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Hey, if all I have is lemons – I have no choice but to make lemonade out of them!
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if reproducible serious bugs are ignored for many months, it indicates one of three possibilities
Filed under: On.ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesOtherReports
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