“Fragmented memory” describes all of a system's unusable free memory. These resources remain unused because the memory allocator responsible for allocating them cannot make the memory available. This ...

The once-dominant handset maker BlackBerry is busy squashing BadAlloc bugs in its QNX real-time operating system used in cars in medical devices. The potential danger from a raft of memory-allocation ...

In “Memory Allocation Strategies for Real Time Operating System in Context with Embedded Devices,” Dipti Diwase, Shraddha Shah, Tushar Diwase, and Priya at the G.H.Raisoni College of Engineering ...

Video compression has become an essential technology to meet the burgeoning demand for high‐resolution content while maintaining manageable file sizes and transmission speeds. Recent advances 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, ...

Researchers from the Graz University of Technology have discovered a way to convert a limited heap vulnerability in the Linux kernel into a malicious memory writes capability to demonstrate novel ...