Timeline for What is your favorite whiteboard interview problem?
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| Nov 25, 2010 at 4:07 | comment | added | aufather | @Michael - Even I am not very sure about the exact syntax of the macros used. But if you have a sound understanding of a computers architecture, you should be able to figure it out. Again if the candidate comes up with a macro definition which cannot be implemented, I proceed to ask him how to implement that macro. | |
| Nov 25, 2010 at 4:00 | comment | added | aufather | @Michael - In the embedded world, you need to know your platform architecture really well. So this question quickly weeds out the ignorant pretty early on. | |
| Nov 25, 2010 at 3:58 | comment | added | aufather | @barjak - Once you start implementing printf, you will need to access your stack, and I have got responses that stack is in the CPU. | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 14:45 | comment | added | Michael K |
@aufather: If I remember correctly, you have to call varargs() or some function like that. Am I correct? I've only done it once to say I did it a while ago.
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| Nov 24, 2010 at 14:43 | comment | added | Michael K | Anyone who knows anything about computer architecture would know that. To me it's completely unrelated, so the guy is demonstrating his ignorance. | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 13:28 | comment | added | barjak | I don't get the "stack is part of the CPU" thing. | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 13:08 | history | answered | aufather | CC BY-SA 2.5 |