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For what it's worth, I have some 20 years of experience designing embedded C systems, with large and small code bases both. Code design is some of the hardest things to do, since books about object...
grep is not the right tool for your case. You can use basename: basename a/b/c --> c basename a/b/c/ --> c or, in your case basename branches/features/arm_and_musl --> arm_...
When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorr...
You want to scale from one linear range to another. That can always be done with y = mx + b where X is the input value and Y the output value. M is the scale factor, and B the offset. You ...
Note: I asked this question on TopAnswers a couple weeks ago, but didn't get any response, so I figured I'd ask it here. I am currently learning C++. I have a parent class (Vehicle) and two subc...
Is it valid to partly allocate an object, as long as you only use the allocated part of it? #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> struct s { int i[100]; }; int main(void) {...
I have a Map with Optional values. I want to filter it to remove empty values. Map<K, Optional<T>> input; Map<K, T> result = input. // here is some code I'm looking for ...
I did git fetch to quickly get latest commits. I did this instead of git pull so I could deal with merge conflicts offline. But my repository is still stuck on the old commit, and now git pull fail...
In older C and C++ standards, the auto keyword simply meant automatic storage duration. As in the compiler automatically handles where the variable is stored, typically on the stack or in a registe...
We are getting a lot of GenAI-related tags: llm, gpt, gpt-3 and so on. None which have anything to do with programming, nor are they programming tools. These tags are IMO about the end goal of an ...
I think it would be funny if my web application that is hosted using an nginx reverse proxy (proxy_pass) returned something like 200 Could Be Worse rather than 200 OK, when the page load was succes...
Use a static site generator. There are other possibilities, but they seem more complicated or worse for your use case. A static site generator takes in source data in some combination of markup fo...
Usually not in practice, but the user name part of an email address can be case-sensitive. Going way back to RFC821 (emphasis mine): Commands and replies are not case sensitive. That is, a comma...
Sure, I'll step up for this, since nobody else has yet. I think my credentials speak for themselves, but just in case: I'm an accomplished Python developer with a long history of helping people ou...
This is intended to be a canonical post for this problem which is pretty common. Especially among beginners. I've heard that I should avoid using floating point variables for representing curren...
There is a well know trade-off between a site aiming for questions/answers that are of a high quality and useful for people who arrive from Google and a site being nice to new users who often only ...
Before doing any performance testing, I think you have already noticed that the payload is significantly smaller by missing those double quotes. However, what I think is more important, especially ...
Yes, it is generally good practice to always cast the return value of functions to (void) if not used. This is self-documenting code showing that you aren't using the return value on purpose and di...
I personally have several (10s) of Q&A where I posted the question and\or answer, on related SE sites. These Q&A are ones I go back to for reference for myself and others. I know and under...
I propose adding, at the top of the list: On-topic questions about writing software, where software is understood to include any means of specifying to a computer actions to be performed later. (...
I agree and I think it should be a separate category, with separate posting rules. There are several examples of how the rules for each category would likely be fundamentally different: Main Q&...
I think we have a UI problem with the "add link" dialog box in the editor: it doesn't capture enter keystrokes which then fall through to the submit button. I'm merrily typing a post when I real...
I'm experimenting with different operators and have a hard time understanding the outcome of certain expressions. I try to combine the ++ operators with other operators such as assignment in the sa...
I have found this nice library for parsing/writing .elf files as output by e.g. the GCC toolchain: ELFIO I have a bare metal embedded project with an ARM Cortex M target. My goal is to overwrite...
Firstly, the technology stack of a commercial project should be selected based on several different decision factors. Staff availability is paramount. The developers, QA and associated team m...
