• SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    Why? I’ve worked as an embedded dev for a few years and nobody in my team cared what it was called.

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      7 hours ago

      because making sure offsets are correct come up a lot when you’re memory-mapping IO.

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        4 hours ago

        Right but whether they’re correct or not doesn’t depend on the name you use. Every programmer worth his name knows arrays start at offset zero even if you don’t call it that.