Search Results
| Search type | Search syntax |
|---|---|
| Tags | [tag] |
| Exact | "words here" |
| Author |
user:1234 user:me (yours) |
| Score |
score:3 (3+) score:0 (none) |
| Answers |
answers:3 (3+) answers:0 (none) isaccepted:yes hasaccepted:no inquestion:1234 |
| Views | views:250 |
| Code | code:"if (foo != bar)" |
| Sections |
title:apples body:"apples oranges" |
| URL | url:"*.example.com" |
| Saves | in:saves |
| Status |
closed:yes duplicate:no migrated:no wiki:no |
| Types |
is:question is:answer |
| Exclude |
-[tag] -apples |
| For more details on advanced search visit our help page | |
Results tagged with operating-systems
Search options not deleted
user 100853
Questions about the principles of software that interfaces between hardware and applications.
1
vote
1
answer
1k
views
How do computers really communicate with hard-drives on x86_64?
All of us have saved a file on our computers using a programming language. If I look down through the layers of abstraction, I usually get stuck at a kernel-level call or a C-call like fwrite(); But e …
- 287
0
votes
1
answer
49
views
Making sense out of byte-order in text
I have stumbled about the way a text file is saved by the OS.
I have typed:
printf "ab" | hexdump
and the output was:
6261
which are the letters in reversed order. My first intent was endiane …
- 287
1
vote
1
answer
137
views
How does dynamic memory-allocation exactly work?
I have wondered about ordinary code. Assume we are running this code on any modern System like Unix/Linux/Mac/Windows. This code is C, but it should work with every language which is close to the hard …
- 287