Currently in Java, but I've had the pleasure (if you can call it that) of sitting in some of the C++ labs doing my stuff. It's been a while for me and few in my various classes have such old timers ...

In both .NET and Java, the garbage collector is smart enough to detect and release circular references. Dealing with circular references in C++ isn't as simple. In the first installment of this series ...

Anyone know of some good links about working with C++ memory buffers? Specifically, how to search them for specific character(s), and so forth. Just wondering if any of you have found a particular ...

C++ founder Bjarne Stroustrup says profiles are essential to the language’s future and will not break existing code, unlike ad-hoc solutions. C++ memory safety issues have come under heat recently, ...

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 ...

An earlier article [“Memory Leak Detection in Embedded Systems”, LJ, September 2002, available at www.linuxjournal.com/article/6059] discussed the detection of ...