TrapC code resembles C/C++ code, but, according to Rowe, it's memory safe. That is to say, its pointers cannot produce segfaults, buffer overruns, or memory leaks. The programming language is designed ...

As someone who has spent over two decades in the embedded systems industry, I’ve seen the vast evolution of technology—from 8-bit microcontrollers to today’s sophisticated, multicore systems. Yet, one ...

Since incrementing a pointer is always relative to the size of its underlying data type, incrementing argv adds the size of a pointer to the memory offset, here 8 bytes.

The increment and decrement operators can be applied to pointers of any type except the type `void*`.

New Age C++ Weak Pointers and Circular References in C++ 11 In both .NET and Java, the garbage collector is smart enough to detect and release circular references. Dealing with circular references in ...

The previous two posts (part 1 and part 2) have been exploring the fundamentals of using pointers from the basics of declaring a pointer to the more complex notation of manipulating pointers. An ...

C++ pointers earned a bad reputation for causing memory leaks, but new smart pointers release memory as it stops being referenced.