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From: "Vinzent Hoefler" <0439279208b62c95f1880bf0f8776eeb@t-domaingrabbing.de>
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Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:50:19 +0100
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Shark8 wrote:

> On Feb 8, 1:44 pm, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
> wrote:
>>
>> The next test was this:
>>
>>    x and FF = ?
>>    x or FF = ?
>>    x xor FF = ?
>>
>
> ...w.t.f.
> That's insane... how is it I'm not even getting to the interview
> stage?

What so insane with just ones and zeros?

The first simply returns X, the seconds returns FF, the third returns the
bit-inverse of X.

Unless, of course, this was a trick question and FF is not meant to be a
base-16 number.


Vinzent.

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