Coding Relic

Let's just get this out in the open: I love enum. Enum is a friend of mine. Enum and I go way, way back. I also detest enum's evi...

This time, Gentle Reader, we'll delve into one of the sticky areas of the C language: pointer aliases. Let's dive directly into code...

Stackoverflow.com is a site by programmers and for programmers, whose purpose is answering questions on topics relating to software devel...

Rather by definition, embedded software involves building a gizmo of some sort. Manufacturing the hardware portion of the gizmo turns out to...

There are only 16 characters to work with, but programmers just love coming up with creative spellings using hex numbers. I suspect that l...

Using GPL software imposes the requirement to redistribute the source code, but this requirement is routinely ignored in commercial products...

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...