Pointers are a powerful feature in C and C++, but they come with risks that can lead to serious issues like NULL pointer crashes. By following these best practices—initializing pointers, checking for ...

In the 98/99 school year I was taking first year programming at a community college and it was the last year that they taught it using C/C++; the next year all the same classes were Java, and the ...

Each pointer needs a place in the memory, and dereferencing the pointer requires copying the address, adding some extra CPU cycles. A more convincing argument to replace the switch statement with ...

Programming in C can be tough for those new to the language, so Dennis Kubes wrote “ The 5-minute Guide to C Pointers,” and put it on his blog. Only four code snippets are needed for Kubes to ...