Frama-C Blink as seen from the inside As you have undoubtedly heard if you follow at all this sort of thing, as of April 3, Google is forking WebKit. Its Chrome browser will henceforth rely on its own variation of the popular rendering engine, Blink. This is big news. If I...
Read MoreWarning: on a punctiliousness scale ranging from zero to ten, this post is a good nine-and-a-half. There was no tag for that, so I tagged it both “C99” and “C11”. The faithful reader will know what to expect. There is a bit of C90, too. To summarize, it may appear...
Read MoreCRlibm is a high-quality library of floating-point elementary functions. We used it as reference a long time ago in this blog while looking at lesser elementary function implementations and the even lesser properties we could verify about them. A bold choice The CRlibm documentation contains this snippet: […] it may...
Read MoreIn a recent post, John Regehr reports on undefined behaviors in Coq! In Coq! Coq! Exclamation point! Coq is a proof assistant. It looks over your shoulder and tells you what remains to be done while you are elaborating a mathematical proof. Coq has been used to check that the...
Read MoreFrom Facebook to Silent Circle Some computers at Facebook were recently compromised because of a zero-day in Java. Nothing unexpected. Last december instead of writing a full blog post I lazily linked to Robert Graham predicting this sort of thing for the year 2013. Speaking of Facebook do you know...
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