Memory safety in C can be summed up in a few words: there isn’t any! C is the most popular programming language used to write applications for embedded systems, particularly microcontroller-based ...

The report suggests the industry could gain data on the companies that are hiring people who know memory-safe languages, and those who require C/C++, by inspecting a software bill of materials (SBOM).

Google's Chrome team is looking at heap scanning to reduce memory-related security flaws in Chrome's C++ codebase, but the technique creates a toll on memory – except when newer Arm hardware is ...

Memory Safety Much of the safety in TrapC would come from managed pointers, with its author describing TrapC’s memory management as ‘automatic’ in a recent presentation at an ISO C meeting.

Memory safety refers to the extent to which programming languages provide ways to avoid vulnerabilities arising from the mishandling of computer memory. Languages like Rust, Go, C#, Java, Swift ...

The Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) at the White House in the United States recommends that developers migrate from programming languages such as C++ and C to memory-safe programming ...

In the Holy Programming Language Wars, the lingua franca of system programming – also known as C – is often lambasted for being unsecure, error-prone, and plagued with more types of beh… ...

The C-language extension compiler includes memory-safe pointers along with new safety features not found in C or C++.

Support for unified memory across CPUs and GPUs in accelerated computing systems is the final piece of a programming puzzle that we have been assembling for about ten years now. Unified memory has a ...