Many “freshman” programmers do not fully understand or appreciate pointers in the C language. When I wanted to learn about pointers— variables that contain a memory address— I took a book on summer ...

Hi everyone,<BR><BR>I'm continuing on my c coding adventures and I've hit a pointer snag.<BR><BR>I'm basically maintaining a fixed collection of structs that I would like to handle using an array of ...

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 ...

Microsoft Research is open sourcing the project to help extend the C language, while also aiming to make it more secure and reliable. A new project, dubbed Checked C, has emerged from Microsoft ...

Dennis Ritchie started developing the C programming language (Fig. 1) in 1969 at AT&T’s Bell Labs. In 1972, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan delivered the quintessential book, The C Programming ...

Programming an FPGA with Verilog looks a lot like programming. But it isn’t, at least not in the traditional sense. There have been several systems that aim to take C code and convert it into a ...