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D4D4
- 11 May 2025
A co-worker of mine was looking at some disassembled ARM code the
other day, and discovered something weird. Lots of d4d4
instructions, scattered about. LLVM’s objdump says this is a relative
branch to -0x58. The weird part is that they were always
unreachable.
Magic File Names
- 10 May 2025
A co-worker discovered an amazing thing the other day. He needed to check out our codebase on a Windows machine (for real, not inside WSL) to do something model-y with Matlab. It’s worked before, and it looked like it was going fine until he got this error:
Immigration
- 13 April 2025
Sometimes people ask me questions about what it’s like living in a different country. The Netherlands is not all that different from the US, as these things go, but it’s still different enough. This is a collection of things I miss from life in Boston and things that make this place feel foreign.
Gorging
- 28 April 2024
When I tried to search for the demand version of dumping, I found a lot of articles about regular dumping. A few of those had good definitions, so here’s one:
Why I like Zig
- 11 February 2024
I’ve been writing C code professionally since about 2006, and while I look at a lot of languages (I have varying levels of familiarity with Python, Erlang, Ada, Haskell, Go, Rust, C++, OCaml, D, Javascript, Prolog, Lua, Lisp, Bash, Perl, Forth…you get the idea) I have yet to find one that I would rather use in cases where C is appropriate. Part of this inclination is that I mainly write for embedded systems where a lot of the features of higher level languages either don’t help or cost too much.