[SGVLUG] September 14th Monthly Meeting at Du Pars on C/C++

[Braddock Gaskill via SGVLUG]

Hi folks,
Reminder that we are meeting tomorrow (Thursday) night at Du Pars for a
presentation by Dustin Laurence about the amazing peculiarities of C and
C++.  Dinner begins at 7 and the presentation is at 8pm.

Details are below.

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Braddock Gaskill <braddock at braddock.com>
wrote:

> Join us on Thursday Sept 14th for dinner at Du Pars and a presentation by
> our own Dustin Laurence.
>
> Du-Par's Restaurant and Bakery
> 214 S Lake Ave, Pasadena, CA
>
> Dinner begins around 7 pm and the presentation will start after most
> people have received their food or 8 pm, whichever comes first.  Buying
> dinner is optional.
>
> The Young Man and the C Reloaded
>
> What if I told you that most or all nontrivial C and C++ programs you have
> ever written were just illusions? Most such programs contain undefined
> behavior, and undefined behavior is at the heart of most C and C++ security
> problems, yet few programmers understand how far down that rabbit hole
> goes. We will swallow the red pill and study the nature and extent of
> undefined behavior in C and C++, techniques for writing more secure,
> reliable C and C++ in spite of the reality of undefined behavior and other
> mischief, and little-used compiler flags and other tools to detect and/or
> eliminate bugs.
>
> About Dustin
>
> Intending to become a programmer ("developer" hadn't been invented by the
> marketing department yet), Dustin got sidetracked and spent more time than
> he cares to admit doing theoretical physics, a background filled with
> continuous mathematics almost entirely irrelevant to computer science. He
> eventually returned to his original love, and though they probably won't
> admit it currently hacks code for Whitemoon Dreams, Inc.  He avoids social
> media for the same reason he doesn't do crack cocaine.
>
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