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I agree 100% with Linus, especially the boost comment. It was heavily used in a project I worked on and "boost" soon became a curse word.

Knowing about struct memory alignment can come in in very handy when reverse-engineering 3rd party binary protocols. Often you come across many "unknown" bytes which turned out the…

Definitely C, and you will also need to know a fair bit of assembly. Also familiar yourself with the PE (portable executable) format and learn how to use IDA disassembler and possi…

Are not all the local variables allocated on the stack in the function prologue anyway? no matter where in the function they are defined. A typical function starts with subtracting…

That's what I always say too. I built our whole house myself. The same process applies: Split project into parts, find out how to do each part, do them. And once in a while you hav…

Yeah, I remember that. :)