Emergency C Infusion
Perl’s actually a surprisingly cool language — CPAN makes it astonishingly
easy to not only acquire near-arbitrary functionality but, through more
documentation than exists anywhere else in the Open Source community, actually
*gasp* understand what you’re doing. Fun.
That being said, I’ll always be a C hacker…and thanks to my good friend
and former build engineer, Jason Spence, I’ll have some new toys to play with once I return to the blissful land
of raw packetdom (which are so much faster than even generic UDP sockets it’s
not even funny). Check it out:
- Next Generation Debug: Include this preprocessor
include in your C code and get error messages that reference the file and
codeline that spawned the error. It does depend on actually having non-brain-dead
error handling, though. - Stack-Aware Memcpy: Use this version of memcpy
and get array bounds checking (or at least, an inability for many buffer
overflows to succeed). Vaguely reminiscent of Libsafe.
Cool stuff!
Categories: Security
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