I recently presented arguments for and against using dynamic memory allocation in C and C++ programs. 1 I do agree that truly safety-critical systems should avoid using dynamic allocation because the ...

“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 security research group for Azure Defender for IoT, dubbed Section 52, has found a batch of bad memory allocation operations in code used in Internet of Things and operational technology (OT) such ...

An earlier article [“Memory Leak Detection in Embedded Systems”, LJ, September 2002, available at www.linuxjournal.com/article/6059] discussed the detection of ...