fl42v@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 9 months agoYou can certainly change it. But should you?lemmy.mlimagemessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1549arrow-down18
arrow-up1541arrow-down1imageYou can certainly change it. But should you?lemmy.mlfl42v@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 9 months agomessage-square62fedilink
minus-squareSuzune@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up22·edit-29 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-squareScoopta@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·9 months agoIn amd64/x86 kernel space you can dereference null as well. My hobby kernel keeps critical kernel structures there XD.
minus-squarehumbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-29 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
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).In amd64/x86 kernel space you can dereference null as well. My hobby kernel keeps critical kernel structures there XD.
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