Coding Relic

In my industry at least, the high end of the margin curve is dominated by modular systems: a chassis into which cards can be added to add fe...

Because I'm a terrible programmer, I spend a lot of time in gdb. gdb is a fantastic tool that has (so far) kept me from getting fired, b...

The first set of random musings ended up being far longer than planned, and rather a lot of material ended up on the cutting room floor. So...

Getting the kernel to successfully boot on a new board is a wonderful feeling, which lasts about 5 seconds before the application developers...

This time, Gentle Readers, we will explore something completely different. It is still related to embedded systems, for a suitably generous ...

I typically work on software for hardware platforms, where the design cycle is considerably longer than that of a desktop or web application...

The C99 specification says the following about the volatile keyword (section 6.7.3): An object that has volatile-qualified type may be mod...

I work on embedded systems, generally specialty networking gear like switches, routers, and security products. We use a commodity processor ...

A google search for "premature optimization" turns up tens of thousands of hits, most of them quoting Hoare's maxim that prem...