• Suzune@ani.social
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      9 months ago

      When you program embedded you’ll also dereference NULL pointers at some point.

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      Some platforms can have something interesting at memory address 0x0 (it’s often NULL in C).

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        9 months ago

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

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        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