Robert C Seacord
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- NDC TechTown5 editions2021–2025
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- James McNellis17 talks
- Peter Sommerlad32 talks
- Sean Parent12 talks
- Bjarne Stroustrup24 talks
- Dan Saks7 talks
- Victor Ciura50 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Unsafe Rust | RustConf 2026 | 2026-09-08 |
Rust reduces many memory-safety bugs but no formal memory model exists so undefined behavior invalidates all program guarantees; evidence: 10% of Rust kernel… | ||
| Dangerous Optimizations! in C++ - Part Deux | ACCU on Sea 2026 | 2026-06-17 |
Shows concrete compiler behaviors that break causality: a loop-invariant remainder hoisting undefined behavior on MSVC moves a division fault earlier, GCC O0… | ||
| Composite Array Types in C | NDC TechTown 2025 | 2025-09-22 |
C’s composite-type rules cause surprising undefined behavior when array sizes come from runtime or unevaluated expressions: unevaluated VLA size creates UB… | ||
| Dangerous Optimizations in C and C++ Programming Languages | ACCU 2025 | 2025-04-01 |
Compilers increasingly treat undefined behavior (UB) as a license for aggressive optimization, claiming wins from constant folding, loop‑invariant hoisting and… | ||
| Memory Safety: Rust vs. C | NDC TechTown 2024 | 2024-09-09 |
Argues that government pushes for memory-safe languages overstate immediate benefits, noting a Ferine qualified Rust toolchain exists but is certified only for… | ||
| Correct Use of Integers in Safety-critical Systems | NDC TechTown 2024 | 2024-09-09 |
Argues that MISRA and AUTOSAR rules requiring replacement of standard integers with exact-width typedefs make code less safe and less portable, showing… | ||
| Keynote: Safety and Security: The Future of C and C++ | NDC TechTown 2023 | 2023-09-18 |
Becomes WG14 convenor and catalogs concrete failures and fixes: a common compiler optimization simplifies pointer+len checks into Len<0 and removes bounds… | ||
| Signed Integers Considered Harmful | NDC TechTown 2022 | 2022-08-29 |
Argues that counts and sizes should be unsigned by default, not signed, because unsigned avoids expensive checks and more predictable semantics for counts… | ||
| Secure Coding in C and C++ - Volatility Ahead | NDC TechTown 2021 | 2021-08-30 |
Explains that volatile applies to lvalue accesses, not inherently to objects, so C23 changes standard wording to say "access through a volatile-qualified… | ||
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