Electronic Design

Pointers in Rust: Whacking the Mole (Part 3)—Indirection, References, and the Borrow Checker

What is the Rust borrow checker and why is it important? How mutability and reference-counted pointers are related. Arguably the most novel aspect of Rust, and the feature that’s the most challenging ...
Electronic Design

Pointers in Rust: Whacking the Mole (Part 2)—The Rust Approach

The Rust language brings a fresh approach to whacking the pointer mole. Why the Rust language needed a fresh approach to managing pointers. Why there are no null values in Rust. Pointers in the Rust ...
InfoWorld

How to use managed pointers in C#

Learn how managed pointers differ from object references, why they are useful, and how to work with them in C# A pointer is a variable that points to the address of another variable. In other words, a ...