Print thread stack, ISR stack, and global heap locations, sizes, and utilization at runtime when using mbed OS. Useful for tracking down total runtime memory usage and stack overflows. It will print ...

Abstract: Heap and stack buffer overflows are still among the most common attack vectors in intrusion attempts. In this paper, we ask a simple question that is surprisingly difficult to answer: which ...

There are two pools of memory that are available to you as a C++ programmer: the stack and the heap. Until now, we’ve been using the stack. This video (9:30) explains the difference between the stack ...

Abstract: M-commerce has shown up as e-commerce in mobile and wireless communication, and now deals with on-line banking, stock trading, auctions, transactions, and mobile media. M-commerce ...

To reduce application execution time, Java’s segmented code cache would be extended with an optional “hot” code heap to compactly accommodate a part of non-profiled methods, under a draft JDK ...

Java Mission Control is a performance-analysis tool that renders sampled Java Virtual Machine metrics in easy-to-understand graphs, tables, histograms, lists and charts. Originally designed to depict ...

Based on Vaadin Fusion, Hilla combines a reactive JavaScript front end with a Spring Java back end for full-stack web development. Let's get started with Hilla. Hilla combines a Java back end built on ...

The Morris worm of 1988 was one of those industry-shaking experiences that revealed how quickly a worm could spread using a vulnerability known as a buffer overflow or buffer overrun. Around 6,000 of ...

There is an answer to Eddy Keming Chen’s question, “how many grains of sand can you take away from the heap and still call it a heap?” (5 September, p 36) “Heap” has a three-dimensional vibe as a noun ...