Programmers learning Rust struggle to understand own ership types, Rust’s core mechanism for ensuring memory safety without garbage collection. This paper describes our process of systematically ...

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Download PDF Join the Discussion View in the ACM Digital Library Recognizing Rust’s potential, the industry has shown significant interest in migrating legacy systems from C to Rust. Such migration ...

Active-Object State Machine in C++ A compact active-object C++ finite state machine providing RAII-safe asynchronous dispatch and pub/sub signals. State Machine Design in C A compact C language finite ...

Abstract: Today reducing the energy usage of computing systems becomes a paramount task, no matter they are lightweight mobile devices, complex cloud computing platforms or large-scale supercomputers.

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 ...

Memory management is a crucial aspect of programming in C and C++, directly impacting the performance and reliability of applications. Understanding how memory is allocated, used, and freed is ...

Efficient memory management is a cornerstone of developing robust and performant Embedded C applications for Microcontroller Units (MCUs). Given the limited memory resources on these devices, ...

Svoboda, D., 2013: Using the Pointer Ownership Model to Secure Memory Management in C and C++. Software Engineering Institute blog, Accessed June 17, 2026, https ...

In C and C++, it can be very convenient to allocate and de-allocate blocks of memory as and when needed. This is certainly standard practice in both languages and almost unavoidable in C++. However, ...