// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
A colleague raised a question that realloc does better than free + malloc because allocated memory block is never being actually shrunk and reallocations to smaller size following by reallocations to larger (but still not larger than one of the previous) do not lead to heap locks and actual underlying heap memory block reallocations. While…
Microsoft C++ compiler offers a buffer security check option since quite a long ago. It adds so called “security cookies” onto stack and checks them to be not modified by code in order to early-detect stack buffer overflow conditions. The compiler option /GS is enabled by default in Release configurations and is not applicable to…