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 ...

Reserving memory for specific purposes. At startup, operating systems and applications reserve fixed amounts of memory (RAM) and may allocate more as needed. Although a virtual memory function ...

“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 ...

Memory management is a critical aspect of modern operating systems, ensuring efficient allocation and deallocation of system memory. Linux, as a robust and widely used operating system, employs ...