[prog] Asking questions here

[Aslı]

allright, i'm sorry about that and won't do it again.

the assembly thing is about my System Programming course. Since the A5
stream cipher is already hard to implement in C (but fortunately we
are given the C code) , i have doubts about how i am going to
implement the routines ( except for main ) in 80x86 assembly, and
therefore i wanted to have a look at how the compiler manages this
translation so that i would have an idea about how the structs are
used, how the things are worked out according to the calling
conventions of C, the usage of stack pointers, etc..

thanks again for your concern..

On 01/11/05, Mary <mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org> wrote:
> Incidently Asli, since the kind of disjoint and context-free questions
> you've been asking here (you're not explaining why you need the answers)
> are going to have people asking "are these homework questions?" pretty
> quickly, you might need to include a bit more information in your mails.
> I suggest:
>
>  1. why you want the answer; and
>
>  2. where you've already looked and why you need more information.
>
> The answer to question #1 is important, because you'll get different
> answers to "what are Perl and Python good for?" if you're asking because
> your company wants to write a web application than if you're asking
> because you have to write an essay on it.
>
> If you or anyone else are asking us homework questions, that's OK, but
> we'd prefer that you said so, so that we can help you with the intent of
> the homework, which is helping you learn how to do things yourself.
> In general, people on these kinds of lists are very keen to help people
> learn, but they're less keen to answer question after question when they
> don't know the background about why the question is being asked.
>
> -Mary
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