How does C handle floating-point numbers

We’ve already learned about storing single number in one byte (containing 8 bits) – that’s actually the same like storing ASCII-table characters in a single char variable. Depending on the unsigned/singed definition the range is -127 to 127 or 0 to 255 (with 0 as…

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UTF handling in C

As You probably know I’m a Java developer, and a concept of String is my everyday meal. However, in C there is no such thing as string-type. Of course there is no problem with using string literals as a value assigned to the variable. However,…

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September 2020 summary

It feels almost like yesterday. It’s the 1st of September and I’ve started my journey towards low-level stuff of computer science. Thirty days – that was the plan. Now it is behind me, so a time came to sum everything up. Let’s go. To start…

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Bytes, mappings, encodings and all that jazz

In the modern web-based programming the problem of encoding and usage of different languages seems like a thing of the past. I still remember how I’ve struggled at the very beginning of my programming career to get polish letters to be properly displayed in HTML.…

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