How to Check Your Pointers at Runtime

Patreon ➤   / jacobsorber   Courses ➤ https://jacobsorber.thinkific.com Website ➤ https://www.jacobsorber.com --- How to Check Your Pointers at Runtime // Have you ever wondered how to check pointers at runtime and keep your programs from crashing? Programmers hate segmentation faults, and while the best way to prevent seg faults is to write clean, correct, error-free code, this video will show you a fun trick that you can use to check your pointers and predict at runtime which pointers will cause a seg fault, and crash your program. Smallest C Program (pmap, vmmap) —    • Using the Smallest C Program to Better Und...   *** Welcome! I post videos that help you learn to program and become a more confident software developer. I cover beginner-to-advanced systems topics ranging from network programming, threads, processes, operating systems, embedded systems and others. My goal is to help you get under-the-hood and better understand how computers work and how you can use them to become stronger students and more capable professional developers. About me: I'm a computer scientist, electrical engineer, researcher, and teacher. I specialize in embedded systems, mobile computing, sensor networks, and the Internet of Things. I teach systems and networking courses at Clemson University, where I also lead the PERSIST research lab. More about me and what I do: https://www.jacobsorber.com https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~jsorber/ http://persist.cs.clemson.edu/ To Support the Channel: like, subscribe, spread the word contribute via Patreon --- [  / jacobsorber  ] rep the channel with nerdy merch --- [https://teespring.com/stores/jacob-so...] Source code is also available to Patreon supporters. --- [https://jsorber-youtube-source.heroku...]