fl42v@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 8 months agoYou can certainly change it. But should you?lemmy.mlimagemessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squarehumbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoI will not tell my kids regular scary stories. I will tell them about embedded systems
minus-squareSuzune@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-28 months agoWhen you program embedded you’ll also dereference NULL pointers at some point. More... Some platforms can have something interesting at memory address 0x0 (it’s often NULL in C).
minus-squarehumbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-28 months agoI was thinking about telling them how in embedded systems it’s a good practice to allocate the memory by hand, having in mind the backlog, but yours will come first
minus-squareScoopta@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoIn amd64/x86 kernel space you can dereference null as well. My hobby kernel keeps critical kernel structures there XD.
I will not tell my kids regular scary stories. I will tell them about embedded systems
When you program embedded you’ll also dereference
NULLpointers at some point.More...
Some platforms can have something interesting at memory address
0x0(it’s oftenNULLin C).I was thinking about telling them how in embedded systems it’s a good practice to allocate the memory by hand, having in mind the backlog, but yours will come first
In amd64/x86 kernel space you can dereference null as well. My hobby kernel keeps critical kernel structures there XD.