For many people in the IT community, 2022 got off to a bad start after a bug in on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server caused emails to become stuck en route due to a failed date check. Put ...
I picked up adding a few meta values to enums a long time ago; I feel they make bounds checking and writing for loops more readable. But gcc has been giving me some grief about it in one way, here's ...
Almost all Linux kernel device drivers work on more than just one type of processor. This only happens because device-driver writers adhere to a few important rules. These rules include using the ...
An IP address is a 32-bit unsigned integer. It’s usually written as four numbers separated by dots, as in: 212.227.196.186. This format is knows as the “dotted decimal notation”. Applications use ...
Embedded C and C++ programmers are familiar with signed and unsigned integers and floating-point values of various sizes, but a number of numerical formats can be used in embedded applications. Here ...