Programmers learning Rust struggle to understand own ership types, Rust’s core mechanism for ensuring memory safety without garbage collection. This paper describes our process of systematically ...

Better known for its open-source wolfSSL SSL/TLS library, wolfSSL (the company) has now released the wolfIP open-source, lightweight TCP/IP stack with no dynamic memory allocations (e.g., no malloc ...

Abstract: The ability to dynamically allocate memory is fundamental in modern programming languages. However, this feature is not adequately supported in current general-purpose PIM devices. To ...

LWMalloc is an ultra-lightweight dynamic memory allocator designed for embedded systems that is said to outperform ptmalloc used in Glibc, achieving up to 53% faster execution time and 23% lower ...

Zig is a popular systems-oriented language that is serious about replacing C. Here's what you need to know about Zig. The Zig programming language continues its gradual advance into the world of ...

Short Bytes: C vs C++ — which one is better? What is a procedural programming language and what is a modular programming language? Which one should be used for better and faster output? Well, we ...

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 ...

The realm of heap exploitation has always intrigued security researchers due to its complexity and the potential for high-impact vulnerabilities. The HitconCTF Qualifiers 2024 presented a formidable ...

Here we define a Toy struct with a name field and create three instances representing Barbie and Superman toys. Each toy is initialized, and an array of pointers to these toy instances is created. The ...

Dynamic polymorphism is a fundamental principle in object-oriented programming, allowing objects to be treated uniformly while exhibiting different behaviors. This feature is crucial for achieving ...

Memory management is fundamental to the performance of all applications. On modern server architectures, an application’s memory allocator needs to balance memory utilization against the ability to ...