Top "Low-level" questions

In terms of a computer system, low-level refers to the components that appears lower in the stack of system layers.

Can I change a user's keyboard input?

I found this keyboard hook code, which I'm trying to slightly modify for my purposes: http://blogs.msdn.com/toub/…

c# low-level keyboard-layout keyboard-hook
Comparing Bitfields of Different Sizes

What happens if you use a bitwise operator (&, |, etc.) to compare two bitfields of different sizes? For example, comparing 0 1 1 0 …

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Which is faster: x<<1 or x<<10?

I don't want to optimize anything, I swear, I just want to ask this question out of curiosity. I know …

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Confused over memory mapping

I've recently started getting into low level stuff and looking into bootloaders and operating systems etc... As I understand it, …

memory arm low-level
Getting all static (interned) strings from a .NET assembly (dll)

I wish to get a list of all strings that are used in a .NET assembly including the “static” values …

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