C Pointers and Memory Management
Write Cleaner C Code by Mastering PointersBy Elliot Renner
Length7h 9m
About this audiobook
C pointers guide and memory management C. Are you ready to master C pointers and memory management? This hands-on guide takes you from beginner to pro with worked examples that make the heap, addresses, and allocation finally click. Elliot Renner delivers a low-level, practical approach that demystifies C's memory model, helping you write efficient, bug-free code. Whether you're a student, hobbyist, or professional developer, this book transforms confusion into clarity. Unlike the fictional narratives of The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates (One World Essentials) or the romantic twists of The Other Emily, this is a pure technical deep dive—no story, just solid C programming. You'll learn to manage dynamic memory, avoid leaks, and optimize performance. With step-by-step examples, you'll conquer pointers and gain confidence in low-level coding. Start your journey today and unlock the power of C's memory model.
This hands-on Other guide is written to be used at the keyboard: every concept is paired with something you can run, adapt, and keep. You move from first principles to real, working results, with the common errors and fixes called out along the way so you are never stuck for long.
This hands-on Other guide is written to be used at the keyboard: every concept is paired with something you can run, adapt, and keep. You move from first principles to real, working results, with the common errors and fixes called out along the way so you are never stuck for long.
This hands-on Other guide is written to be used at the keyboard: every concept is paired with something you can run, adapt, and keep. You move from first principles to real, working results, with the common errors and fixes called out along the way so you are never stuck for long.
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GenreTechnology
Length7 hrs 9 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
2Chapter 1 — Memory, Addresses, and the Pointer Mentality
3Chapter 2 — Pointers: Declaration, Assignment, and Dereferencing
4Chapter 3 — Dynamic Memory Allocation: malloc, calloc, realloc, free
5Chapter 4 — Pointer Arithmetic and Array-Pointer Duality
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6Chapter 5 — Strings as Character Arrays: Pointers in Text Processing
7Chapter 6 — Structures and Pointers: Building Linked Data Nodes
8Chapter 7 — Function Pointers: Callbacks and Strategy Patterns
9Chapter 8 — Void Pointers, Const Qualifiers, and Type Safety
10Chapter 9 — Building the Heap: A First Cut Memory Allocator
11Chapter 10 — Optimizing the Allocator: Alignment, Coalescing, and Thread Safety
12Chapter 11 — Linked Lists: Implementation with the Custom Allocator
13Chapter 12 — Stacks and Queues: LIFO and FIFO with Pointers
14Chapter 13 — Binary Search Trees: Recursive Pointer Manipulation
15Chapter 14 — Low-Level Memory Techniques: Bit Manipulation and Hardware Access
16Chapter 15 — Memory Debugging: Valgrind, AddressSanitizer, and Static Analysis
17Chapter 16 — The Custom Allocator in Embedded Contexts
18Chapter 17 — Overriding malloc: Interposition and LD_PRELOAD
19Chapter 18 — Final Project: An In-Memory NoSQL Database
20About the Author
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