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Pascal Cuoq on 14 March 2012

My colleague Boris Yakobowski is on holidays, and while leisurely browsing the internet, he seems to have stumbled upon my previous post. He e-mailed me about it. For some reason, it does not feel right to provide much biography when mentioning facetious colleagues perhaps because it would look too self-congratulatory...

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Minimizing the number of alarms emitted by the value analysis
Pascal Cuoq on 12 March 2012

This blog post describes for the first time some options that became available in Nitrogen, continuing this series. This post also offers a benchmark but the results of this benchmark cannot be reproduced with Nitrogen. They should be reproducible with the next version of Frama-C. Alarms false alarms and redundant...

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ptrdiff_t links for the week-end
Pascal Cuoq on 2 March 2012

Here are two links related to ptrdiff_t: Ptrdiff_t is evil [removed dead link] a blog post for if you are not tired of conversion and promotion issues yet and an interesting answer on StackOverflow. I was doubtful about the second one (I had no difficulties to accept the first one...

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Checking for overflows, revisited once
Pascal Cuoq on 12 February 2012

I do not have any solution I am 100% happy with to the overflow dilemma in the previous post. Here is one of the solutions that does not make me 100% happy. The first (partial) solution is: program so that overflows correspond exactly to unwanted circumstances (and then it becomes...

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