Buffer overflow vulnerabilities have driven remote code execution for decades and keep appearing in critical network ...

Today:Early fog in the far southwest clears quickly. Most areas stay dry with sunshine and variable cloud, though northern and northeastern regions may see isolated showers. Light winds overall, ...

This package contains a rather bushy wrapper for LVGL. I originally needed to program a simple user interface, but I didn't want to write a GUI framework from scratch, and found LVGL rather nice. Only ...

Cardiac arrest is common and deadly, affecting up to 700 000 people in the United States annually. Advanced cardiac life support measures are commonly used to improve outcomes. This “2023 American ...

This is version 8.3.0 (next release development) of a conservative garbage collector for C and C++. This is intended to be a general purpose, garbage collecting storage allocator. The algorithms used ...

What makes the Rust language one of the best for writing fast, memory-safe applications? Rust's memory-safety features are baked into the language itself. Over the past decade, Rust has emerged as a ...

This lesson starts a new segment about Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) — an important set of concepts critical to understanding any modern software, not just modern embedded software. As usual in ...

Most modern programming languages use garbage collection, but developers have options for how it is implemented and tuned. Get an overview of how garbage collection works in languages such as Java, ...

In our first post in this series, we discussed the need for proactively addressing memory safety issues. Tools and guidance are demonstrably not preventing this class of vulnerabilities; memory safety ...