Integer-Safety on Pi Stack https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/integer-safety/ Recent content in Integer-Safety on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Self-Hosted C++ Safe Integer Arithmetic: SafeInt vs Boost.SafeNumerics — Preventing Integer Overflow at Compile Time https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-28-cpp-safe-integer-arithmetic-safeint-boost-safenumerics/ Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-28-cpp-safe-integer-arithmetic-safeint-boost-safenumerics/ <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>Integer overflow is one of the most insidious bug categories in C and C++ — it silently wraps around, corrupting data without any visible crash or error message. Integer overflow vulnerabilities have caused critical security exploits (Stagefright, Android mediaserver), financial calculation errors, and subtle data corruption in everything from embedded firmware to cloud infrastructure.</p>