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You can certainly change it. But should you? (lemmy.ml)
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[-] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 9 months ago

I will not tell my kids regular scary stories. I will tell them about embedded systems

[-] suzune@ani.social 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

When 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).

[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 14 points 9 months ago

In amd64/x86 kernel space you can dereference null as well. My hobby kernel keeps critical kernel structures there XD.

[-] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

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