Unchecked errors are especially pernicious in operating system file management code. Transient or permanent hardware failures are inevitable, and error-management bugs at the fi...
Programmers have long used assertions to characterize properties of code. An assertion violation signals a corruption in the program state. At such a state, it is standard to term...
Bassem Elkarablieh, Ivan Garcia, Yuk Lai Suen, Sar...
In defining large, complex access control policies, one would like to compose sub-policies, perhaps authored by different organizations, into a single global policy. Existing po...
Multiple dispatch – the selection of a function to be invoked based on the dynamic type of two or more arguments – is a solution to several classical problems in object-orient...
Peter Pirkelbauer, Yuriy Solodkyy, Bjarne Stroustr...
Software or hardware data cache prefetching is an efficient way to hide cache miss latency. However effectiveness of the issued prefetches have to be monitored in order to maximi...