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minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·14 hours agodepends on the area you’re working in. it’s a pretty important distinction in embedded software.
minus-squareSorryQuick@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 hours agoWhy? I’ve worked as an embedded dev for a few years and nobody in my team cared what it was called.
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agobecause making sure offsets are correct come up a lot when you’re memory-mapping IO.
minus-squareSorryQuick@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 hour agoRight but whether they’re correct or not doesn’t depend on the name you use. Every programmer worth his name knows arrays start at offset zero even if you don’t call it that.
depends on the area you’re working in. it’s a pretty important distinction in embedded software.
Why? I’ve worked as an embedded dev for a few years and nobody in my team cared what it was called.
because making sure offsets are correct come up a lot when you’re memory-mapping IO.
Right but whether they’re correct or not doesn’t depend on the name you use. Every programmer worth his name knows arrays start at offset zero even if you don’t call it that.