Sorry.

Mostly Type 1 and overflow is a diagnostic log at most. Losing all stale unprocessed data and leaving a ready empty buffer behind is often the desired outcome.

Type 3 is probably banned on most codebases because of the integer overflow.

And yet here I sit, writing ring buffers, and never thinking about this idea. Probably because of the power of two issue. Which isn't actually a problem because as he points out, who would do that? But it makes me think that it's a restriction that it just isn't.

But in all honesty, look for more embedded jobs, then. We can certainly use the help.

Jokes on me, when I need them, I don't feel like writing them so I just pick up an old one and tweak it. Or just tell Claude to build me one and it one shots it.