Google's Chrome team is looking at heap scanning to reduce memory-related security flaws in Chrome's C++ codebase, but the technique creates a toll on memory – except when newer Arm hardware is ...

The C-language extension compiler includes memory-safe pointers along with new safety features not found in C or C++. TrapC, a fork of the C language, is being developed as a potential solution ...

In C and C++, it can be very convenient to allocate and de-allocate blocks of memory as and when needed. This is certainly standard practice in both languages and almost unavoidable in C++. However, ...

C++ founder Bjarne Stroustrup says profiles are essential to the language’s future and will not break existing code, unlike ad-hoc solutions. C++ memory safety issues have come under heat ...

Together with (optional) smart pointers and the bounds-checked strings and containers from the Standard Template Library (STL) C++ is thus memory safe. Of course, if you’re doing low-level ...

This article discusses the problem of detecting memory leaks in C++ programs. The tools discussed here detect application program errors, not kernel memory leaks. All of these tools have been used ...

Data scientists and other developers who are frustrated with the inability to see what’s going on with their hybrid Python-C/C++ applications will appreciate Memray, a new open source memory profiler ...

"NSA advises organizations to consider making a strategic shift from programming languages that provide little or no inherent memory protection, such as C/C++, to a memory safe language when possible.

Microsoft is eyeing the Rust programming language as a safer replacement of C/C++ code after discovering just how many security problems are caused by memory corruption bugs. That news comes in a new ...

Can anyone recommend any free tools to reverse engineer C++ code into standard UML diagrams?<br><br>This is for a project with ZERO budget for these tools, but requirements to create UML diagrams ...