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The word “binade” now has its Wikipedia page…
Pascal Cuoq on 19 July 2013

… but that's only because I created it. If you are more familiar than me with Wikipedia etiquette feel free to adjust edit or delete this page. Also although a Wikipedia account is necessary to create a page I think it is not required for editing so you can add...

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More on the precise analysis of C programs for FLT_EVAL_METHOD==2
Pascal Cuoq on 15 July 2013

Introduction It started innocently enough. My colleagues were talking of supporting target compilers with excess floating-point precision. We saw that if analyzing programs destined to be compiled with strict IEEE 754 compilers was a lovely Spring day at the beach analyzing for compilers that allow excess precision was Normandy in...

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Arithmetic overflows in Fluorine
Pascal Cuoq on 9 July 2013

There is a C quiz in the middle of this post, lost in the middle of all the reminiscing. A history of arithmetic overflows in Frama-C From the very beginnings in 2005, until after the first Open Source release in 2008, Frama-C's value analysis was assuming that all arithmetic overflows...

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On the precise analysis of C programs for FLT_EVAL_METHOD==2
Pascal Cuoq on 6 July 2013

There has been talk recently amongst my colleagues of Frama-C-wide support for compilation platforms that define FLT_EVAL_METHOD as 2. Remember that this compiler-set value, introduced in C99, means that all floating-point computations in the C program are made with long double precision, even if the type of the expressions they...

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On the prototype of recv()
Pascal Cuoq on 20 June 2013

Typing man recv on my system, I get: ssize_t recv(int socket, void *buffer, size_t length, int flags); The man page contains this additional bit of specification: “These calls return the number of bytes received, or -1 if an error occurred.” The type ssize_t is defined as a signed variant of...

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