Just as you can often treat device registers as a memory-mapped struct, you can treat an interrupt vector as a memory-mapped array. In my last column, I suggested that you use casts sparingly and with ...

We all interrupt and know it’s only sometimes okay. But we may not realize how detrimental it can be: You are more tense, feeling you need to be ready to jump in before even the person finishes. You ...

Normal execution of a given software application is contained within the bounds of one program, or instruction stream. Such execution is provable, as well as traceable. However, system designers and ...