Why do libraries such as GLFW define related constants with hexadecimal values instead of using an enum? For example: #define GLFW_NO_ERROR 0 #define GLFW_NOT_INITIALIZED 0x00010001 #define GLFW_NO_CURRENT_CONTEXT 0x00010002…
I'm writing a fast parser for Sony RAW image files and need to detect the two-byte byte-order marker used in the header. My original code compared `data[:2]` with…
I'm writing a Python library to quickly parse RAW files from a Sony camera. To detect the file's byte order, I originally used this code:nn```pythonndef check_for_endian(data: bytes) ->…
I'm learning the basics of C and I'm confused about the difference between the `%p` and `%x` format specifiers. I understand that `%p` is used to print a…
I'm learning the fundamentals of C and I'm confused about the printf format specifiers %p and %x. They can both appear to print an address in hexadecimal, so…
A friend reverse-engineered how an application signs its network requests, and now I want to learn how to investigate things like that myself. I'm looking for beginner-friendly resources…