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Questions related to software that manages computer hardware resources, and more specifically microcontroller or microprocessor operating Systems

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What stops an assembly program from crashing the operating system?

In the end, all programs are machine code, regardless of whether the source language was assembler or a high-level language. The important thing is that there are hardware mechanisms that limit what …
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Function Pointer in C Language

If you're using the XC8 compiler, it handles pointers to functions by creating a jump table in code memory. The actual function pointer is then an offset value that's used to index the jump table. In …
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What is the role of ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) in the comp arch abstraction stack.

The chart isn't about inputs and outputs at all, so the question as phrased is meaningless. Any given system can be described at different levels of detail, and that is what the chart is about. Each …
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