fl42v@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 3 months agoYou can certainly change it. But should you?lemmy.mlimagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squarehumbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoI will not tell my kids regular scary stories. I will tell them about embedded systems
minus-squareSuzune@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-23 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-up0·3 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).In amd64/x86 kernel space you can dereference null as well. My hobby kernel keeps critical kernel structures there XD.