Pointers — you either love them, or you haven’t fully understood them yet. But before you storm off to the comment section now, pointers are indeed a polarizing subject and are both C’s biggest ...

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 ...

In our first part on pointers, we covered the basics and common pitfalls of pointers in C. If we had to break it down into one sentence, the main principle of pointers is that they are simply data ...

Learn how managed pointers differ from object references, why they are useful, and how to work with them in C# A pointer is a variable that points to the address of another variable. In other words, a ...

In Part 1 this month, we will explore object-oriented principles to see if they are supported by OOC. I will also discuss how to create the C++ Class construct, which lays the groundwork for ...

I have Visual Studio .NET and I was fooling around with Microsoft's Managed Extensions. They let you write garbage collected objects in C++, and it is presented as a fundamentally new paradigm.