I once encountered a hurdle that I suspect many developers face: mismatched character encoding and string length limitations. I was migrating Publisher records using a Java Spring Boot Rest API, ...

Currently, we have a framework to widen bounds for null-terminated arrays pointers. If an _Nt_array_ptr is dereferenced at the current upper bound then we can widen ...

️ 1 bswinnerton mentioned this on Oct 14, 2020 ncat segfault in __strlen_avx2 () from /usr/lib64/haswell/libc.so.6 nmap/nmap#2154 ...

The strlen function is expensive. For every call it must loop over every character in the input string until a nul terminator is found. Therefore, it is very unwise to call it more often than needed.