Elegant C

I am in Columbus Ohio for MICRO 52 .  A third of the attendees drove from other "midwestern" universities, of which I am one.  K...

Today, Michal Friedman , gave a talk on Concurrent Data Structures for Non-Volatile Memory. Future systems will contain non-volatile memo...

It is the end of the semester, so time for posters about student projects.  I visited two sessions so far with three more to go.  I specific...

Vivek Seshadri  gave his PhD defense today covering: how different memory resources have different granularities of access, and therefore n...

I read an argument recently about whether a test for NULL should be: if (ptr) - or - if (ptr != NULL) Do you know that the assembly fo...

Let's start with a mythical program. It has some classes (structs, objects, etc) that are instantiated. Each field has a meaning given...

How often do you have to write a loop to read a file? Do you issue fscanf, fread, or perhaps create a stream via some object-oriented langu...

As I stated in part 3 , I found some erroneous information in chapter 11 about NUMA.  While this book was published in 2004, I cannot excuse...

People often express uncertainty about the working of pointers, structures, etc.  They may not be my readers, but hearing their plight moves...