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Archive for June, 2009

What I currently hate most about C++

Posted in C, Correctness, Cplusplus, Programming on June 19th, 2009 25 Comments »

Everyone knows that global variables are bad and should be avoided wherever possible.  Why?  Because each global variable is, in effect, an implicit argument to every function that can see the global variable.  The same thing is true of any non-local state.
And the presence of non-local state means that you can’t reason locally about your [...]

Valgrind + Mac OS X update (June 17, 2009)

Posted in Mac OS X, Valgrind on June 17th, 2009 5 Comments »

It’s time for the June update on the progress of the Mac OS X port of Valgrind.
Progress has been good: the DARWIN branch has been merged to the trunk.  With that having happened, we’re now in sight of an actual release (3.5.0) containing Mac OS X support.  There’s some polishing and bug-fixing — both [...]