A topic that I find particularly interesting, which is raised by many embedded software developers whom I meet, is dynamic memory allocation – grabbing chunks of memory as and when you need them. This ...

Memory is required to run programs on your computer. Of course, the program itself needs to be loaded into memory, and it is no exaggeration to say that most of the operations performed by the program ...

Hi,<BR><BR>I've been having some difficulty with a C assignment that I have (I'm starting to realize how much PHP and Java spoils me!). Its a simple cash register that asks for the type of purchase, ...

I've got a problem with some C we are working on (embedded systems), right now we have a huge 2D array that works fine, it looks like this t_ourStructType *Array; Array = ...

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, ...

Dealing with dynamic memory traditionally has been one of the most awkward issues of C and C++ programming. It is not surprising that some supposedly easier languages, such as Java, have introduced ...

The first word that came to mind when I heard about introducing Garbage Collection techniques into a C or C++ program was “nonsense”. As with any other decent C programmer who loves this language, the ...