Buffer overflow exploits make use of the treatment of strings in C as character arrays rather than as first-class objects. Manipulation of arrays as pointers and primitive pointer...
Abstract. Imaging applications such as filtering, image transforms and compression/decompression require vast amounts of computing power when applied to large data sets. These appl...
Benoit A. Gennart, Marc Mazzariol, Vincent Messerl...
The serious bugs and security vulnerabilities facilitated by C/C++'s lack of bounds checking are well known, yet C and C++ remain in widespread use. Unfortunately, C's a...
Santosh Nagarakatte, Jianzhou Zhao, Milo M. K. Mar...
Financial companies, engineering firms and even scientists create increasingly larger spreadsheets and spreadsheet programs. The creators of large spreadsheets make errors and mus...
Tudor Antoniu, Paul A. Steckler, Shriram Krishnamu...
Dynamic slicing algorithms can greatly reduce the debugging effort by focusing the attention of the user on a relevant subset of program statements. Recently algorithms for forwar...