Embedded

Best practices to safely navigate pointers in C/C++

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 ...
Hackaday

Directly Executing Chunks Of Memory: Function Pointers In C

In the first part of this series, we covered the basics of pointers in C, and went on to more complex arrangements and pointer arithmetic in the second part. Both times, we focused solely on pointers ...
Electronic Design

Pointers in Rust: Whacking the Mole (Part 3)—Indirection, References, and the Borrow Checker

What is the Rust borrow checker and why is it important? How mutability and reference-counted pointers are related. Arguably the most novel aspect of Rust, and the feature that’s the most challenging ...
Electronic Design

Pointers in Rust: Whacking the Mole (Part 2)—The Rust Approach

The Rust language brings a fresh approach to whacking the pointer mole. Why the Rust language needed a fresh approach to managing pointers. Why there are no null values in Rust. Pointers in the Rust ...