How to implement continuations? *

Question I'm working on a Scheme interpreter written in C. Currently it uses the C runtime stack as its own stack, which is presenting a...

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What are the barriers to understanding pointers and what can be done to overcome them? *

Question Why are pointers such a leading factor of confusion for many new, and even old, college level students in C or C++? Are there any ...

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Does anyone have experience creating a shared library in MATLAB? *

Question A researcher has created a small simulation in MATLAB, and we want to make it accessible to others. My plan is to take the simulati...

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String.indexOf function in C *

Question Is there a C library function that will return the index of a character in a string? So far, all I've found are functions ...

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Passing multidimensional arrays as function arguments in C *

Question In C can I pass a multidimensional array to a function as a single argument when I don't know what the dimensions of the array ...

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C/C++ library for reading MIDI signals from a USB MIDI device *

Question I want to write C/C++ programs that take input from a MIDI device. The MIDI device connects to my PC using a USB connector. ...

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Choosing a static code analysis tool *

Question I'm working on a project where I'm coding in C in a UNIX environment. I've been using the lint tool to check my source ...

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Good STL-like library for C *

Question What are good libraries for C with datastructures like vectors, deques, stacks, hashmaps, treemaps, sets, etc.? Plain C, please, an...

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Rockbox audio format *

Question How do you specify a callback for rb->pcm_play_data() ? Answer I've never worked with Rockbox, but I did some snooping aro...

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Why am I getting a malloc: double free error with realloc()? *

Question I've tried to write a string replace function in C, which works on a char * , which has been allocated using malloc() . It...

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GTK implementation of MessageBox *

Question I have been trying to implement Win32's MessageBox using GTK. The app using SDL/OpenGL, so this isn't a GTK app. I hand...

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How to use the C socket API in C++ on z/OS *

Question I've been having issues getting the C sockets API to work properly in C++. Specifically, although I am including sys/socket.h, ...

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