Event Dime
C++26: Standard library hardening
Education & Learning
- When:
- May 12, 2026 · 10:00 PM
- Source:
- The Software Engineer's Guidebook by Orosz Gergely
Undefined behavior (UB) in C++ is one of the hardest categories of bugs to deal with. It can silently corrupt memory, cause crashes far from the actual mistake, or — worst of all — just happens to work on your machine. A significant share of UB in real codebases comes not from exotic language features, but from basic misuse of the standard library: accessing a vector out of bounds, calling fron...