For more background on safety and security issues related to C++, including definitions of “language safety” and “software security” and similar terms, see my March 2024 essay “C++ safety, in conte…| Sutter’s Mill
What are temporal and spatial memory safety?| blog.yoshuawuyts.com
Someone was giving away stickers reading “Somebody Should Do Something” at the WG21 C++ Standardization meeting held in Wrocław last week, and it makes for a pretty good tagline for that meeting.| cor3ntin.github.io
Recently, several of my colleagues at Google shared the story of how we are retrofitting spatial safety onto our monolithic C++ codebase: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/11/retrofitting-spatial-safety-to-hundreds.html I wanted to have a bit of story-time about some of the strange ways that all this came to be, at least as I remember things. There are some really interesting developments that led us here, and some important lessons to learn from that history. Do note that this is just my ...| chandlerc.blog