>OKOK, so you write drivers but don't know about C types, standard types, fixed-length types
That was my thought as well. I've occasionally been hired to write windows kernel drivers and I'd say that if you don't have a good grasp of stuff like C's type promotion, you're gonna have a bad time. Surprised to see this from OSR, which was a great source of info for driver development arcana when I was doing it.
Knowing the rules is not the same thing as consistently applying the rules across code you wrote or didn't write (or wrote late at night). The first is easy for a human, the second is hard for a human. That's why language researchers post-1972 have had jobs.
That was my thought as well. I've occasionally been hired to write windows kernel drivers and I'd say that if you don't have a good grasp of stuff like C's type promotion, you're gonna have a bad time. Surprised to see this from OSR, which was a great source of info for driver development arcana when I was doing it.
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