Electronic Design

Pointers in Rust: Whacking the Mole (Part 1)

How pointers create pitfalls for a number of hard-to-detect programming errors. How Rust avoids these pitfalls and catches most pointer errors at compile time. Pointers have been a staple of ...
Android Authority

NullPointerException in Java - Explaining the billion dollar mistake

While Java is one of the most in-demand and widely used programming languages in the world, it is not without its detractors. Java is not a particularly beginner-friendly language and it is rife with ...
PC Magazine

null pointer

In programming, a reference to zero. It may be the starting value in the pointer, or may be used as the response to an unsuccessful search function. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

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

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