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minus-squareSorryQuick@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 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-up1·3 hours agobecause making sure offsets are correct come up a lot when you’re memory-mapping IO.
minus-squareSorryQuick@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·35 minutes 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.
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.