Sorting is something most programs have to do on some occasion. Quicksort is accepted as the best in-practice general purpose sorting algori...
Methods for safe string handling
Every now and then you hear about how a buffer overflow was discovered in some program. Immediately, everyone jumps on the story with their ...
Are open source libraries written properly?
Every now and then you hear people discussing open source applications and libraries, and how a bug was found. The multitude of bugs being f...
Cool unknown libraries - Part 1
Every now and then someone asks me if there are any little unknown libraries to get some cool functionality. So today I'd like to showca...
What to do about gets()
A friend of mine recently asked me if I was to make my own C library, how would I implement gets()? An interesting question indeed. When I f...
File Descriptors and why we can't use them
Those of you who have been programming for a UNIX based OS for a while have surely felt the power of file descriptors. One prevalent problem...
Applications and the Difficulties of Portability?
I'm a software developer who writes a lot of freeware utilities in C/C++ which are all cross platform and work well. Lately some of my u...
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