Function pointers can be used for a wide variety of applications including the implementation of state machines. Just like any tool, it may not always be appropriate to use function pointers for a ...

A critical tool when developing an embedded system in C is an understanding of how pointers work. Misunderstanding pointer fundamentals can result in long hours spent debugging a system or a hidden ...

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In the first part of this series, we covered the basics of pointers in C, and went on to more complex arrangements and pointer arithmetic in the second part. Both times, we focused solely on pointers ...

This may fall under the heading of "Don't do that" but did cause me to be slightly curious.<BR><BR>What would happen if you say, created a pointer to a function that took three ints as arguments, but ...

If the parameter types and return value types match, a pure function pointer should be implicitly convertible to a view function pointer. The same goes for implicit convertibility from view to ...

Abstract: Validating function pointers dynamically is very useful for intrusion detection since many runtime attacks exploit function pointer vulnerabilities. Most current solutions tackle this ...