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 ...

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 used.

The C-language extension compiler includes memory-safe pointers along with new safety features not found in C or C++. TrapC, a fork of the C language, is being developed as a potential solution for ...

A group working on the development of the hugely popular C++ programming language has outlined a path to make the language "memory safe" -- just like its younger rival, Rust. Widespread warnings about ...

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 ...

Microsoft is eyeing the Rust programming language as a safer replacement of C/C++ code after discovering just how many security problems are caused by memory corruption bugs. That news comes in a new ...

Work on the Safe C++ extensions proposal, forged a year ago to address memory safety in the language, has ceased, according to Harry Bott, the CEO of the C++ Alliance, which oversaw the proposal. The ...