If your production Linux system is logging memory allocation failures, it might still be able to keep running. But developers want to keep an eye on which code can survive a shortage of memory. In ...

The lightweight allocator demonstrates 53% faster execution times and requires 23% lower memory usage, while needing only 530 lines of code. Embedded systems such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices ...

A new technical paper titled “Preventing Rowhammer Exploits via Low-Cost Domain-Aware Memory Allocation” was published by researchers at Georgia Tech. “Rowhammer is a hardware security vulnerability ...

Apple's work on hardening the memory allocator has made it harder for attackers to exploit certain classes of software vulnerabilities on iOS and Mac devices, the company's security engineers wrote on ...

I've seen programs where there's a correlation between running out of memory and dying with a segfault, but I don't get the connection. I know a segmentation fault is when you try to access memory you ...

I have a crazy nasty headache, so I'm not totally all there mentally, but if you're talking about making sure just that the new op succeeded, I don't believe there is a better way. I'm not sure what ...