For low level programming the need to manipulate the bytes that make up a more complex representation is very common. One long standing way of doing the job, especially in programs that target a ...

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 ...

Although pointers in C/C++ can seem confusing at first, they provide an extremely powerful tool that allows you to create compact and efficient code. Although pointers in C/C++ can seem confusing at ...

In the first part of this series, we covered the basics of pointers in C, and went on to more complex arrangements and pointer arithmetic in the second part. Both times, we focused solely on pointers ...

The purpose of this article is explain to a beginning or intermediate programmer what pointers are and to provide a few examples of how they are used. The first three sections constitute ...

We all know that smart pointers are really nice things and we should be using them instead of raw new and delete. But what if deleting a pointer is not only the thing we need to call before the object ...

For low level programming the need to manipulate the bytes that make up a more complex representation is very common. One long standing way of doing the job, especially in programs that target a ...