Memory manager performance is complex. You might think that heap performance could be simply characterized by the time required for allocation and deallocation and the memory overhead, but, well, it's ...

Why stack allocation is a good idea for embedded programming. Myths about stack allocation. I started my programming career using BASIC and assembler on computers that had very limited support for a ...

One of the extremely simple--yet completely crazy--compatibility behaviors available in the Application Compatibility Toolkit is called EmulateHeap. If you enable this compatibility fix on a process, ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition, is a practical and technical guide to understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. Offering detailed ...

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 ...