Memory as a Programming Concept in C and C++


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The overwhelming majority of bugs and crashes in computer programming stem from problems of memory access, allocation, or deallocation. Such memory related errors are also notoriously difficult to debug. Yet the role that memory plays in C and C++ programming is a subject often overlooked in courses and in books because it requires specialised knowledge of operating systems, compilers, computer architecture in addition to a familiarity with the languages themselves. Most professional programmers learn entirely through experience of the trouble it causes. This 2004 book provides students and professional programmers with a concise yet comprehensive view of the role memory plays in all aspects of programming and program behaviour. Assuming only a basic familiarity with C or C++, the author describes the techniques, methods, and tools available to deal with the problems related to memory and its effective use.




Programming Persistent Memory


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Beginning and experienced programmers will use this comprehensive guide to persistent memory programming. You will understand how persistent memory brings together several new software/hardware requirements, and offers great promise for better performance and faster application startup times—a huge leap forward in byte-addressable capacity compared with current DRAM offerings. This revolutionary new technology gives applications significant performance and capacity improvements over existing technologies. It requires a new way of thinking and developing, which makes this highly disruptive to the IT/computing industry. The full spectrum of industry sectors that will benefit from this technology include, but are not limited to, in-memory and traditional databases, AI, analytics, HPC, virtualization, and big data. Programming Persistent Memory describes the technology and why it is exciting the industry. It covers the operating system and hardware requirements as well as how to create development environments using emulated or real persistent memory hardware. The book explains fundamental concepts; provides an introduction to persistent memory programming APIs for C, C++, JavaScript, and other languages; discusses RMDA with persistent memory; reviews security features; and presents many examples. Source code and examples that you can run on your own systems are included. What You’ll Learn Understand what persistent memory is, what it does, and the value it brings to the industry Become familiar with the operating system and hardware requirements to use persistent memory Know the fundamentals of persistent memory programming: why it is different from current programming methods, and what developers need to keep in mind when programming for persistence Look at persistent memory application development by example using the Persistent Memory Development Kit (PMDK)Design and optimize data structures for persistent memoryStudy how real-world applications are modified to leverage persistent memoryUtilize the tools available for persistent memory programming, application performance profiling, and debugging Who This Book Is For C, C++, Java, and Python developers, but will also be useful to software, cloud, and hardware architects across a broad spectrum of sectors, including cloud service providers, independent software vendors, high performance compute, artificial intelligence, data analytics, big data, etc.




Understanding and Using C Pointers


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Improve your programming through a solid understanding of C pointers and memory management. With this practical book, you’ll learn how pointers provide the mechanism to dynamically manipulate memory, enhance support for data structures, and enable access to hardware. Author Richard Reese shows you how to use pointers with arrays, strings, structures, and functions, using memory models throughout the book. Difficult to master, pointers provide C with much flexibility and power—yet few resources are dedicated to this data type. This comprehensive book has the information you need, whether you’re a beginner or an experienced C or C++ programmer or developer. Get an introduction to pointers, including the declaration of different pointer types Learn about dynamic memory allocation, de-allocation, and alternative memory management techniques Use techniques for passing or returning data to and from functions Understand the fundamental aspects of arrays as they relate to pointers Explore the basics of strings and how pointers are used to support them Examine why pointers can be the source of security problems, such as buffer overflow Learn several pointer techniques, such as the use of opaque pointers, bounded pointers and, the restrict keyword




Efficient Memory Programming


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Concept of Computer and C Programming


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This book contains some special features to aid you on your path to learn about fundamental concepts of computer and later programming with C in easy way. Each chapter provides concrete examples and explanation of concepts. You will get knowledge of new concepts like grid computers, storage area network, Bluetooth, etc. Numerous sample programs illustrate C's features and concepts so that you can apply them in your computer lab with ease. Each chapter ends with section containing common questions relating to the chapter with reference to older year questions asked in university exams. It contains objective questions and exercises that tests your knowledge of the concepts and helps you prepare for aptitude test conducted by various software companies at the time of recruitment. --




System Programming


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Beginning computing students often finish the introduction to programming course without having had exposure to various system tools, without knowing how to optimize program performance and without understanding how programs interact with the larger computer system. Adam Hoover's System Programming with C and Unix introduces students to commonly used system tools (libraries, debuggers, system calls, shells and scripting languages) and then explains how to utilize these tools to optimize program development. The text also examines lower level data types with an emphasis on memory and understanding how and why different data types are used.




Expert C Programming


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Programming Concepts in C, DS, C++, Java.


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“Programming Concepts in C, DS, C++, Java” book covers all major concepts in different programming languages individually.




Memory Management


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Memory Management: Algorithms and Implementation in C/C++ describes how to construct production-quality memory managers. This approach includes both high-performance explicit memory managers and more intricate garbage collectors like those popularized by the Java Virtual Machine. Every implementation is complemented by an in-depth presentation of theory, benchmark tests, extensive source code examples, and a discussion of each implementation's trade-offs.




C++ Pointers and Dynamic Memory Management


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Using techniques developed in the classroom at America Online's Programmer's University, Michael Daconta deftly pilots programmers through the intricacies of the two most difficult aspects of C++ programming: pointers and dynamic memory management. Written by a programmer for programmers, this no-nonsense, nuts-and-bolts guide shows you how to fully exploit advanced C++ programming features, such as creating class-specific allocators, understanding references versus pointers, manipulating multidimensional arrays with pointers, and how pointers and dynamic memory are the core of object-oriented constructs like inheritance, name-mangling, and virtual functions. Covers all aspects of pointers including: pointer pointers, function pointers, and even class member pointers Over 350 source code functions—code on every topic OOP constructs dissected and implemented in C Interviews with leading C++ experts Valuable money-saving coupons on developer products Free source code disk Disk includes: Reusable code libraries—over 350 source code functions you can use to protect and enhance your applications Memory debugger Read C++ Pointers and Dynamic Memory Management and learn how to combine the elegance of object-oriented programming with the power of pointers and dynamic memory!