tboneatx

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   by tboneatx 17d ago

   How is that a downside?
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   by tboneatx 10y ago

   I agree 100% with Linus, especially the boost comment. It was heavily used in a project I worked on and "boost" soon became a curse word.
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   by tboneatx 10y ago

   Knowing about struct memory alignment can come in in very handy when reverse-engineering 3rd party binary protocols. Often you come across many "unknown" bytes which turned out they were just padding because of 4 byte struct align
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   by tboneatx 10y ago

   Definitely C, and you will also need to know a fair bit of assembly. Also familiar yourself with the PE (portable executable) format and learn how to use IDA disassembler and possibly SoftICE (Not sure if it still works, but it was/is
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   by tboneatx 11y ago

   Are not all the local variables allocated on the stack in the function prologue anyway? no matter where in the function they are defined. A typical function starts with subtracting the stackpointer to make space for the local variables if i
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   by tboneatx 11y ago

   That's what I always say too. I built our whole house myself. The same process applies: Split project into parts, find out how to do each part, do them. And once in a while you have a code review (inspector, building code) haha :)
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   by tboneatx 13y ago

   Yeah, I remember that. :)
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   I wrote 'NetStash'. An iOS app for offline browsing of entire websites.(itunes.apple.com)

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