Programming C without variables is like, well, programming C without variables. They are so essential to the language that it doesn’t even require an analogy here. We can declare and use them… ...

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 ...

In this session the problems will be outlined in detail and an approach to deterministic dynamic memory allocation detailed. C/C++ Memory Spaces. It may be useful to think in terms of data memory in C ...

In my 20 years of C/C++ programming, I’ve had to use a pointer to a function in almost every project. I don’t even recall the circumstances where it would not make a huge un-testable mess ...

Apple's iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 public betas are releasing any minute now; Every iPhone model getting iOS 26 and which ones won't; How to download the iOS 26 beta on your iPhone ...

US President Joe Biden’s administration wants software developers to use memory-safe programming languages and ditch vulnerable ones like C and C++.

Use Rust or C#, abandon C++: Five Eyes agencies warn about memory safety in programming languages Software developers need to step up their secure-by-design game, and fast By Alfonso Maruccia ...

How to Implement Memory-Safe Programming Languages. Memory safety vulnerabilities affect how memory can be accessed, written, allocated, or deallocated. They come in two broad categories: Spatial: ...

The technical analysis from the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director focuses on stopping hackers from exploiting vulnerabilities in programming languages that are not memory safe.