Varun Chandrasekaran, an Illinois Grainger professor of electrical & computer engineering, is among a team of researchers who ...

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.

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

The C language has been a programming staple for decades. Here’s how it stacks up against C++, Java, C#, Go, Rust, Python, and the newest kid on the block—Carbon.

Exclusive C and C++ programmers may not need to learn Rust after all to participate in the push for memory safety. Speaking remotely at the W2140 conference in Bangkok, Thailand, on Tuesday, Robin ...

Software Makers Encouraged to Stop Using C/C++ by 2026 Your email has been sent Memory-unsafe programming languages introduce potential flaws What software manufacturers should do by January 2026 ...

We describe an important memory optimization that arises in the presence of aggregate data structures such as arrays and structs in a C/C++ based system design methodology. We present an algorithm for ...