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Why is there (practically) no 6-byte integer in common usage?
In Postgres, it used to be quite common to use a 4-byte integer auto field for primary keys, until it started becomming somewhat common to run into the 2147483647 limit of 4-byte integers. Now, it's ...
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2votes
2answers
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Struct "prototypes" in (plain)C?
As the title says, can it be done? struct Room{ char *type; //Lecture hall, laboratory, etc. char *name; int *capacity; //How may people it can hold struct Building *building; }; ...
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3votes
4answers
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How do you call one program from another?
What I'm wondering is how running programs communicate with each other, and if someone could post some sample code for how to do this, so I can try it out myself, just for educational purposes. For ...
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1answer
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Testing a codebase with sequential cohesion
I've this really simple program written in C with ncurses that's basically a front-end to sqlite3. I would like to implement TDD to continue the development and have found a nice C unit framework for ...
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2votes
4answers
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Is it better to use a Database or a data structure for network stack?
I've built a multi threaded messaging application in C and I'm currently using a MySQL Memory table to save the session ID, but I'm not sure whether this was a good decision or not. It works like ...
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1vote
2answers
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MySQL with mutiple threads and processes
I'm developing a telecom messaging platform in C, and I'm going to need multiple processes to be working with MySQL DB. How can I make two processes read/write to/from a Mysql DB and, if/when one of ...
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4votes
2answers
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How can a Java programmer make the most of a new project in C or C++? [closed]
As a Java programmer, I'm looking to learn either C or C++ by writing a database manager. Obviously, Java shares many idioms with C and C++, but yet both bring vastly different program design ...
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