One of the most common applications for using function pointers is in task schedulers. Every embedded system contains some type of task scheduler whether it is a simple round robin loop or a state of ...

* @brief Example of a simple C program that demonstrates how to work with function pointers. * This program illustrates how to declare, assign, and use function pointers. * Function pointers allow you ...

When writing a program, you'll often want your program to offer different possible behaviors, but it's difficult to anticipate what behaviors users might desire. For example, when writing a sort ...

Embedded programming is a tricky task that looks straightforward to the uninitiated, but those with a few decades of experience know differently. Getting what you want to work predictably or even fit ...

Abstract: Since function pointers are closely related to software control flow and they are writable, attackers often take function pointers as the targets. To protect the function pointers, we ...

This may fall under the heading of "Don't do that" but did cause me to be slightly curious.<BR><BR>What would happen if you say, created a pointer to a function that took three ints as arguments, but ...

So after a long painful journey tonight of trying to serialize a function pointer, I began to wonder. After seeing the code with a bunch of reinterpret_cast<>() calls, I got to wondering -- how does ...

Callbacks are references to executable code that higher levels of software pass into a function. These callbacks have the ability to greatly increase the portability and reuse of embedded software, ...