C gives you the kind of power that can build spacecraft or brick your laptop before lunch. This list isn’t a lecture; it’s a ...

Kentucky's NCAA tournament woes have continued in stunning fashion. On Thursday, the culprit was Jack Gohlke, who torched the Wildcats with 10 3-pointers in a 32-point effort to lead 14th-seeded ...

Is it time to retire the legacy C and C++ programming languages, and turn to the high-flying Rust language instead? A prominent Microsoft official believes so. In a tweet on September 19, Mark ...

I looked up C function array parameter little used functionality. Here are the details. When declaring an array parameters to a function in all versions of C and C++ for can use the normal common ...

In our first part on pointers, we covered the basics and common pitfalls of pointers in C. If we had to break it down into one sentence, the main principle of pointers is that they are simply data ...

I have a C++ function returning an array, which I convert to a numpy array using np.ctypeslib.as_array(pointer_from_C++_function, (size_of_array,)). This works as expected, but when I repeatedly call ...

Pointer arrays are a useful tool for mapping peripheral registers to a driver. There are many advantages to using pointer arrays such as simplified initializations and the ability to generate a ...

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 ...