huonw.github.io
Blog | Huon on the internet
http://huonw.github.io/blog
Huon on the internet. See selected articles, grouped by topic. Myths and Legends about Integer Overflow in Rust. The primitive integer types supported by CPUs are finite approximations to the infinite set of integers we’re all used to. This approximation breaks down and some computations will give results that don’t match real integers, like. 255 u8 1 = 0. Often, this mismatch is something the programmer didn’t think about, and thus can easily result in bugs. Memory Leaks are Memory Safe. The crate now w...
hoverbear.org
Raft: Tooling & Infra Update
https://www.hoverbear.org/2015/07/23/raft-tooling
Raft: Tooling and Infra Update. In preparation for the forthcoming 0.0.1 release of Raft weve taken several forward steps to improve our (already pretty darn cool! Tooling and infrastructure. If you attempt to set up any of these on your own and have issues let me know! Id be more than happy to help. You can find our. Travis CI released their container infrastructure. Last year, and we finally started using it! Needed for building Cap'n Proto. We need to install Cap'n Proto. Now that weve flagged. Travis...
