moai-lang-c

Memory management in C requires careful allocation and deallocation patterns. This Skill delivers established techniques for dynamic allocation, resource handling, and safety practices that prevent leaks and corruption across manual memory management workflows.

RAII-like patterns in C enforce resource cleanup by pairing allocation with guaranteed deallocation. These patterns apply to file handles, network sockets, and allocated memory, ensuring robust resource management without garbage collection.

Memory profiling and debugging in C uses tools like Valgrind and GDB to detect leaks, buffer overflows, and use-after-free errors. This Skill covers memory safety practices and profiling workflows that integrate with standard debugging toolchains.

Cross-platform C development requires understanding system-specific I/O, process control, and networking differences. This Skill provides portable patterns for system calls and file operations that work consistently across Unix-like systems and Windows.

Systems programming in C covers process management, file I/O, network programming, and direct system calls. This Skill codifies low-level patterns and best practices for robust interaction with operating system interfaces.

Implementing these patterns requires a C compiler (GCC or Clang), build tools (Make or CMake), and debugging utilities (GDB or Valgrind). The standard C library provides the foundation for memory-management and systems-programming workflows.