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23 Sep 2011 »
subtree merge
I was compiling my gsoc code submission the other day. It was done as a git repo (available here), mostly collections of patches, but I also had some gists lying around. Their individual revisions were probably not that interesting, but just adding them as history-less blobs would was also undesirable ...
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11 Jul 2011 »
pre-emptive memory allocation
While scanning
xprepare.c:xdl_prepare_ctx()[1] in the hopes of speed-ups, I stumbled over this gem.What puzzled me was this expression in
xdl_cha_alloc():chanode_t *ancur; ancur = (chanode_t *) xdl_malloc(sizeof(chanode_t) + cha->nsize);
Huh? Passing
sizeof(chanode_t)made sense, but addingcha->nsize?Where doesnsizecome from? Turning to ... -
07 Jul 2011 »
working on nus soc sunfire: from Linux to Solaris
People like to whine about how much NUS SOC sucks. Probably due to the bad experience with vi[m] on Sunfire. But let me be the first to tell you - no. They rule. Absolutely.
Ok ok, I'll come clean - I'm sounding like a fanboi after all the love ...
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30 Jun 2011 »
Update on port histogram diff
The conversion is complete. A few changes were made in the implementation, for example, some changes were due to the way line ranges were being handled. I also missed out on differences in the ranges for types, as I developed on a 64-bit machine (Java's types are 64-bit). This ...
