While reviewing the zend_register_functions function in php/Zend/zend_API.c, I noticed several lines that call malloc without checking for a NULL return value. This oversight could potentially lead to ...

As a person with a chronic illness, I'm no stranger to bloodwork. I used to pore over my lab results, googling the various meanings, and trying not to panic when a test fell out of range. Function ...

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 ...

Memory is required to run programs on your computer. Of course, the program itself needs to be loaded into memory, and it is no exaggeration to say that most of the operations performed by the program ...

Function (Fn) keys – F1, F2, F3, etc., come in handy for those who are in dire need of shortcuts on their keyboards. Laptops are usually equipped with such keys but desktop keyboards, especially the ...

Dynamic memory allocation is one of the important and core concepts in “C” and also, one of the nipping topics for the point of interviews. Malloc, Calloc, Free, and Realloc comes under the “STDLIB.H” ...

First of all, if you wonder why it is important to protect your malloc calls, I suggest this medium article. In this repo you will find a shell script and a malloc wrapper to check malloc protection ...

A topic that I find particularly interesting, which is raised by many embedded software developers whom I meet, is dynamic memory allocation – grabbing chunks of memory as and when you need them. This ...