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| From | Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.os.development |
| Subject | Re: misc comments |
| Date | 2016-03-02 18:58 -0500 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <20160302185854.0351de69@_> (permalink) |
| References | <nb5bmn$5aa$2@gioia.aioe.org> |
On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 17:21:22 -0700 "Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> wrote: > The text of the book, the body, or heart of the book is *not* > coming along so well. It is hard to explain the details > so that a beginner to programming can somewhat understand > what is going on. It's a project where you really need > some programming background to understand the subject. > I have yet to find that knowledge level where the reader > should be. If I assume the reader is fluent in C's Unions > and Structures, the beginner will be lost. If I don't, > a lot of the text is describing the C language. I find > myself adding text and removing it, numerous times trying > to find that line. Oh well, soon. :-) Well, they should understand structures if they've had any high-level language. If they don't understand unions, they might understand overlays, which is similar to using a pointer to a typedef'd struct in C, setting a pointer to the typedef, then accessing items via the typedef's struct elements. A "union" in an overlay setting would be setting multiple overlays of different objects to the same region. Rod Pemberton
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misc comments "Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> - 2016-03-01 17:21 -0700
Re: misc comments "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfrunews@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 21:52 -0800
Re: misc comments "Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> - 2016-03-02 10:28 -0700
Re: misc comments Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-03-02 18:58 -0500
Re: misc comments "Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> - 2016-03-03 12:04 -0700
Re: misc comments "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfrunews@gmail.com> - 2016-03-02 23:41 -0800
Re: misc comments Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-03-02 18:58 -0500
Re: misc comments "Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> - 2016-03-03 12:08 -0700
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