Brendan questions

Brendan answers

• what would the system software have to do if the processor did not generate interrupts?
• Are characters signed or unsigned?
• What is a memory block?
• compare two strings (nul-terminated) other than doing it byte-by-byte?
• Can I pop from the middle of a stack?
• pthreads - Join on group of threads, wait for one to exit
• Detect 2 different cases of polygon self-intersection (intersection occurred inside or outside)
• Linux x86 bootloader
• Uses of the monitor/mwait instructions
• Maximum numerical information density with printf