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Is it even possible to core dump on AVR, with no storage and MMU?


Seg fault, I guess? It’s been a while.


AVR has no protection and no segments. I mean really, it seems to be true that new generation of programmers have zero understanding of hardware, nothing personal.


Nothing personal taken. If I was something more than a hobbyist wrt to hardware, then I might.

I was having this conversation with someone the other day regarding GenAI. The expectations for understanding the lowest-level concerns have changed generationally. Today's hardware wizard might prize their old-school understanding of fundamentals but would probably be rubbish in 1948.




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