Typographical Conventions
Throughout this design specification the following typographical conventions are used to
distinguish technical terms.
Convention
Example
File and path names
/dev/null
or
<stdio.h>
Function names
open()
Programming constants
NULL
Programming data types
uint32_t
Variable names
Count
The following indicators are used to highlight noticeable descriptions.
Attention:
Warnings or cautions to tell you about operations which might have unwanted side
effects.
Note:
Notes to point out something important or useful.
Number Representation
All numbers in this document are base 10 unless designated otherwise. Hexadecimal numbers
have a prefix of 0x, and binary numbers have a prefix of 0b. For example, 42 is represented as
0x2A in hexadecimal and 0b101010 in binary.
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