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The Problem with C++ Safety (Part 1): Why “It Works” Isn’t Good Enough

October 18, 2026

Rainer Grimm’s blog continues. In this first article of a new series, Klaus Iglberger looks at why C++ is called memory unsafe and argues that the real problem isn’t the language itself, but how we write and teach it.

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C++ Core Guidelines: Lifetime Safety And Checking the Rules

October 1, 2019

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The lifetime safety profile in the C++ core guidelines boils down to one issue: don't dereference a possible…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Bounds Safety

September 26, 2019

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Today's post concerns the second C++ Core Guidelines: Bounds Safety profile. The goal of the profile…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Type Safety by Design

September 18, 2019

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What does that mean: type safety by design. Type safety by design just means that you always initialize…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Type Safety

September 8, 2019

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The C++ core guidelines support three profiles: type safety, bounds safety, and lifetime safety. Thanks…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Profiles

September 6, 2019

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Informally, profiles are a subset of rules of the C++ core guidelines for specific concerns such as type…

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The Problem with C++ Safety (Part 1): Why “It Works” Isn’t Good EnoughOctober 18, 2026 - 1:58 pm
Rainer Grimm’s blog continues. In this first article of a new series, Klaus Iglberger looks at why C++ is called memory unsafe and argues that the real problem isn’t the language itself, but how we write and teach it.
Small Safety Improvements in the C++ 26 Core LanguageSeptember 22, 2025 - 10:16 am
Safety is an important concern in C++26. Contracts are probably the most important feature for safety. But C++26 has much more to offer. Today, I would like to introduce three small but important improvements in C++26 that solve typical safety issues in C++. Disallow binding a returned reference to a temporary A safety issue can be […]
Contracts: Evaluation SemanticSeptember 8, 2025 - 9:49 am
After briefly presenting the details of contracts in my last article, “Contracts: A Deep Dive“, I would like to take a closer look at the very interesting Evaluation Semantic in today’s article. If a contract assertion occurs, one of the four evaluation semantics is applied: ignore, observe, enforce, or quick-enforce. The table provides an overview […]
Contracts: A Deep DiveAugust 25, 2025 - 9:35 am
I already introduced contracts in the article “Contracts in C++26”. In this article and the next ones, I will dive deeper into the details. In this article, I refer mainly to the excellent proposal “Contracts for C++”. Unfortunately, proposal P2900R14 exceeds 100 pages in length. I will therefore try to summarize the most important points […]
Data-Parallel Types: AlgorithmsAugust 11, 2025 - 8:45 am
The data-parallel types library has four special algorithms for SIMD vectors. The four special algorithms are min, max, minmax, and clamp. min, max, and minmax The two algorithms min and max have in common that they each accept two SIMD vectors and return a SIMD vector. This contains the element-wise minimum or maximum of the […]
Data-Parallel Types: ReductionJuly 28, 2025 - 10:10 am
In this article, I will discuss reduction and mask reduction for data-parallel types. Reduction A reduction reduces the SIMD vector to a single element. The library provides three functions for this purpose: reduce, hmin, and hmax.The following program shows how these functions are used. // reduction.cpp #include <array> #include <experimental/simd> #include <functional> #include <iostream> #include […]