Visual Studio Magazine

Using the not_null Template for Pointers That Must Never Be Null

It's time to meet the Guideline Support Library, a small helper library that provides some missing functionality. I'll show you how to ensure a pointer is never null, which will make your applications ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

Pointers in Rust: Whacking the Mole (Part 1)

How pointers create pitfalls for a number of hard-to-detect programming errors. How Rust avoids these pitfalls and catches most pointer errors at compile time. Pointers have been a staple of ...
Ars Technica

pointers initialized, get functions returning null?

I'm digging into JSBSim for a project I have using OpenEaagles (OE is the framework, JSBSim is used to do the dynamics heavy lifting). There's some changes that I'm trying to make to JSBSim, and I got ...
Electronic Design

Pointers in Rust: Whacking the Mole (Part 2)—The Rust Approach

The Rust language brings a fresh approach to whacking the pointer mole. Why the Rust language needed a fresh approach to managing pointers. Why there are no null values in Rust. Pointers in the Rust ...