Going open source
Erik Aronesty
Hello, I upgraded an old computer with 2 new large harddisks. Before I could use thoses...
Be sure you have clear breastle to the software before you distribute it under GPL. If you wrote and maintained it for private clients, they may feel they have a proprietary interest (work-for-hire) in the software and would seriously object to your publishing it under GPL.
You may well need such an expert. I do not even know if there is a lint program for C++. I know I used to use lint on C programs all the time, and it was invaluable. But for C++ I never use it.
Similarly, if you code C++ correctly, I do not see how you would even get buffer overruns as a security problem; although you could exhaust all available (to your process) memory, this would just get your process terminated, not violate security. E.g., in C, you might do a (void) strcpy(string1, string2); and run off the end, but in C++, you just do string1 = string2; and string1 will grow to proper size.
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