Archive for י"ג תשרי תשס"ט - October 11, 2008
Identifying Big Endian or Little Endian Progmatically
ו' מרחשון תשס"ז - October 27, 2006Most (99%+) of microprocessors available to the consumer and/or embedded market are either Big Endian or Little Endian; this almost never actually matters. However, sometimes one needs to write endian specific code. Here's how to have code identify if it's running on a big endian or little endian machine:
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Tehillim Followup #2
ו' מרחשון תשס"ז - October 27, 2006Two name changes:
Chaya Sara Leah bas Frummis
Gittel bas Chaya Sara Leah
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Duff's Device
ה' מרחשון תשס"ז - October 26, 2006No C programmer can call himself (or herself) a real programmer without having seen (and been amazed by) Duff's Device. It was invented as a more efficient alternative to regular loop unrolling used in copying bytes from memory to a register (each byte went to the same address in memory), by handling the case when there are "leftover" bytes after a full unroll.
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