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One more rant for the holidays: style self-consciousness
Pascal Cuoq on 9 August 2011

One unexpected consequence of writing semi-regularly in a blog, in addition to the other bits of writing that I have to do, is that I am starting to hate my own style. It feels like English sentences always come out my fingers with the same rhythm to them. Precisely dull....

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Holiday stuff
Pascal Cuoq on 8 August 2011

I do not expect that many people are diligently working at this time of year, and this is my excuse for posting this series of productivity-wasting links. Some of them are even on-topic. For those who missed it, GNU/Linux Magazine/France has a summer special [removed dead link] on the C...

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Donut gibberish
Pascal Cuoq on 7 August 2011

Hey, I left out one alarm last time: donut.c:15 ... out of bounds read. assert \valid(". -~:;=!*#$@"+tmp_7); This corresponds to ". -~:;=!*#$@"[N>0?N:0] in the obfuscated code. I wanted to have a blog post about this construct in particular because I was curious whether it would break the content management system's...

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We have a Csmith-proof framework
Pascal Cuoq on 30 July 2011

Csmith that I mentioned earlier in this blog is a random generator of C programs. That much sounds easy but it generates only well-defined programs which two or more compilers have no excuse for compiling into executables that produce different results. And it generates varied and interesting enough C programs...

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Animated donut: quickly sorting out alarms
Pascal Cuoq on 29 July 2011

This post follows that post. It is a brief survey of the alarms obtained when analyzing donut.c such as a programmer might do when ey is only trying to find bugs or in the context of verification as a first step to get an estimate on the difficulty of the...

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