I recently presented arguments for and against using dynamic memory allocation in C and C++ programs. 1 I do agree that truly safety-critical systems should avoid using dynamic allocation because the ...

In C and C++, it can be very convenient to allocate and de-allocate blocks of memory as and when needed. This is certainly standard practice in both languages and almost unavoidable in C++. However, ...

I have a C++ function returning an array, which I convert to a numpy array using np.ctypeslib.as_array(pointer_from_C++_function, (size_of_array,)). This works as expected, but when I repeatedly call ...