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Gustavo A. R. Silva
Personal blog · embeddedor.com/blogprogrammingsystems
Gustavo A. R. Silva's personal blog at embeddedor.com covers programming and systems. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “How to use the new counted_by attribute in C (and Linux)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Gustavo A. R. Silva's posts on C language safety, such as his write-up on the counted_by annotation for bounds information. The one comment cites it as a reference for a point about compiler annotations.
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Most-linked posts?
- How to use the new counted_by attribute in C (and Linux)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-06-19
What Hacker News says?
Linux is already starting to use the counted_by annotation however only applies to variable length array structure members. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40732745 https://embeddedor.com/blog/2024/06/18/how-to-use-the-new-co... This would if it could be applied to parameters and local variables would allow the expression of the same relation to the compiler as CHK_SIZE and CHK_INOUT_SIZE though they would be a…
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HN discussionSubmitted How to use the new counted_by attribute in C (and Linux) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to use the new counted_by attribute in C (and Linux) as a story · 1 points
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