Re:Metaclasses: Thoughts on generative C++
by duneroadrunner on Friday July 28, 2017 @03:45AM
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> I think there really needs to be a "Safe STL" in addition to "Performant STL" that performs range checks.
SaferCPlusPlus[1] provides compatible, memory-safe versions of the most commonly used STL containers. (The compiler switches mentioned by others add range checking, but do not, for example, catch use-after-free bugs.)
> > It's not simple to write memory safe code in C++, otherwise we would have a lot fewer vulnerabilities in C++ codebases.
Using SaferCPlusPlus, it now is simple to write memory-safe code in C++. And it's not much different from writing traditional (unsafe) C++ code.
SaferCPlusPlus[1] provides compatible, memory-safe versions of the most commonly used STL containers. (The compiler switches mentioned by others add range checking, but do not, for example, catch use-after-free bugs.)
> > It's not simple to write memory safe code in C++, otherwise we would have a lot fewer vulnerabilities in C++ codebases.
Using SaferCPlusPlus, it now is simple to write memory-safe code in C++. And it's not much different from writing traditional (unsafe) C++ code.
[1] shameless plug: https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus