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I feel like developers talk about memory leaks but when you ask them what that means many have no idea. To prevent these situations, let's decide on one. Please no Wikipedia definitions... What is your best definition of a memory leak and what is the best way to prevent them? artificialidiot There are two definitions (at least for me): Naive definition: Failure to release unreachable memory, which can no longer be allocated again by any process during execution of the allocating process. This can mostly be cured by using GC (Garbage Collection) techniques or detected by automated tools. Subtle

I'm working with a couple of AI algorithms at school and I find people use the words Fuzzy Logic to explain any situation that they can solve with a couple of cases. When I go back to the books I just read about how instead of a state going from On to Off it's a diagonal line and something can be in both states but in different "levels". I've read the wikipedia entry and a couple of tutorials and even programmed stuff that "uses fuzzy logic" (an edge detector and a 1-wheel self-controlled robot) and still I find it very confusing going from Theory to Code... for you, in the less complicated

What does it mean to build a solution/project/program? I want to make sure I have my definitions correct (so I don't sound like a idiot when conversing). In IDE's, you can (correct me if I'm wrong) compile source-code/programming-code into computer-readable machine code. You can debug a program, which is basically stepping through the program and looking for errors. But what exactly does building a program do? In VS I'm aware that when you build a program it produces an executable file in a debug folder. Any hard-core tech definitions of what it means to build a program? This does not

Possible Duplicate: Difference between int[] array and int array[] Is there a difference between int[] array = new int[10]; and int array[] = new int[10]; ? Both do work, and the result is exactly the same. Which one is quicker or better? Is there a style guide which recommends one? Both are equivalent. Take a look at the following: int[] array; // is equivalent to int array[]; int var, array[]; // is equivalent to int var; int[] array; int[] array1, array2[]; // is equivalent to int[] array1; int[][] array2; public static int[] getArray() { // .. } // is equivalent to public static int

I know this question has been asked, at least here . But there wasn't a satisfactory answer, at least not to me. There is a lot of talk about marshalling as regards interoperating with unmanaged code, but what about marshalling from one thread to another, as we have to do in .NET sometimes. This makes me ask, what is marshalling, really? When you give a definition of marshalling, how would you define it so that it is explaining the case of interoperability, as well as the cases where you are "marshalling" between threads? Computations often need to move data from one site to another, and don't

This is probably a n00blike (or worse) question. But I've always viewed a schema as a table definition in a database. This is wrong or not entirely correct. I don't remember much from my database courses. schema : database : table :: floor plan : house : room A relation schema is the logical definition of a table - it defines what the name of the table is, and what the name and type of each column is. It's like a plan or a blueprint. A database schema is the collection of relation schemas for a whole database. A table is a structure with a bunch of rows (aka "tuples"), each of which has the

I have to convert a hexadecimal number to decimal, but don't know how. In the AutoIt documentation (pictured below) some constants (being assigned hexadecimal values) are defined: 0x00200000 hexadecimal (underlined in image) equals 8192 decimal (this is the true conversion). But convertors return 2097152 . I have to convert another hex value ( 0x00000200 ), but convertors get it wrong. How to correctly convert it? When I use the definition $WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE (or a hexadecimal value), it doesn't work. If I use an integer I believe it will work. As per Documentation - Language Reference -

I'm trying to figure out how the basic IO Haskell functions are defined, so I used this reference and I got to the putChar function definition: putChar :: Char -> IO () putChar = primPutChar Now, however, I cannot find more information about this primPutChar function anywhere. Maybe it might refer to a pre-compiled function, available as binary from a shared object? If that's the case, is it possible to see its source code? Zeta What prim* means Since you're asking this question in terms of the report, let's also answer this question in terms of the report: Primitives that are not definable in

The standard defines array type meticulously, but I don't see any definition for array . We might say "object of array type", however that can't be right as untyped objects (e.g. space allocated by malloc ) is described as an array. Motivation: The specification for %s in fprintf (C11 7.21.6.1/8) says: the argument shall be a pointer to the initial element of an array of character type but take the code char s[] = "hello"; printf("%s", s+1); then we passed a pointer to the second element. That definition appears to be assuming that array means any set of contiguous object(s) . Edit: seeing as