Does Memory Leak? (1995)
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A 1995 article about a missile system's potential memory leak is discussed, with commenters sharing their experiences and insights on dynamic memory allocation in safety-critical systems.
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nccgroupie
about 2 months ago
In a way it’s expected to crash, especially the hardware :)
embeddev
about 2 months ago
Retired from embedded software for aerospace 3 years ago, and I'm surprised this missile system even had dynamic memory allocation. My organization would keep flight-critical code fully statically allocated.
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