Improve Microsoft Visual C++ Application Security and Robustness with SafeInt

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Published on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 Indexed on 2010/12/21 5:00 UTC
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In this age of cloud computing, massive parallel systems and complex security threats like identity theft and decentralized botnets, devoting resources to combat the seemingly age-old issue of integer overflow appears distinctly passC). Despite the fact that integer overflow is such a well know problem, particularly within C and C++ programming, the problem remains a real issue from both a defect and security standpoint, that's why the introduction of the SafeInt template class in Visual C++ 2010 to address overflows is a great addition.

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