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Best practices to safely navigate pointers in C/C++

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 ...
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JNI and passing pointers from native to Java code

I would like to have some JNI code malloc a block of memory and pass it back to my Java code (in the form of a jlong), so that future calls to other JNI functions can pass this pointer along for the ...
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C - using malloc to dynamically assign memory for a array of strings

Hi,<BR><BR>I've been having some difficulty with a C assignment that I have (I'm starting to realize how much PHP and Java spoils me!). Its a simple cash register that asks for the type of purchase, ...