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 ...
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 ...
GitHub

A TUTORIAL ON POINTERS AND ARRAYS IN C

This is A TUTORIAL ON POINTERS AND ARRAYS IN C Version 1.3 by Ted Jensen. I am putting this up on my Github account as it appears that Ted has taken down his website where this tutorial was located. I ...
Hackaday

The Basics And Pitfalls Of Pointers In C

Pointers — you either love them, or you haven’t fully understood them yet. But before you storm off to the comment section now, pointers are indeed a polarizing subject and are both C’s biggest ...
EDN

Understand and use C pointers

Many “freshman” programmers do not fully understand or appreciate pointers in the C language. When I wanted to learn about pointers— variables that contain a memory address— I took a book on summer ...