CS208 Introduction to Computer Systems
Monday, 17 April 2023

+ Questions
- "integer" vs. "two's complement representation of an integer"
    "Let N be an integer whose 32-bit two's complement
        representation is 0xFFFFFFED. Write N as a decimal integer."
- From Friday: UTF-16BE/LE, sizeof, printf, bin <-> hex <-> dec
- Pointers, pointer arithmetic, what can you change, etc.
- Pointers in the memory diagram
- Codepoint <--> UTF-8 encoding of the codepoint
- strcpy vs. strncpy

+ How would you...
- Determine whether a given computer's architecture was
    big- or little-endian?
- Determine the number bytes in a C int?
- Determine the character encoding used by a given text file?
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+ VS Code debugging revisited

+ Preview of next phase of the course
- Meet x86_64 assembly language
- asm puzzles
- "bombs" lab
- processes
- writing a shell
- buffer overflow lab
- threads
- networking