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 ...

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 ...

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 ...