2ton_jeff
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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I reached out to the author of fasmg WRT your post and circular dependency interest and he pointed me toward two posts that he wrote very specifically to explain what he believes is unique to fasm/fasmg and allows to handle circular dependencies of many kinds. [0] Types of multi-pass assembly, and [1] related pitfalls.
Comment · 1 year ago
Very cool and I like the idea of a "meta-assembler." The most-recent version of flatassembler (fasm 2) is built with fasmg which is also a "meta-assembler" of sorts, in that it also doesn't directly support a specific instruction set and instead is a very powerful macro assembler. I'm keen to check out functionality overlaps between the two implementations.
Comment · 3 years ago
One of the things that actually sold me aside from the repairability thing and all was their wikipedia page[0] where it says that "HMD is headquartered in Espoo, Finland, and is largely run by former Nokia executives."
I was rather hoping that it'd be more like the Nokia we all remember from pre-iPhones. Guess not.
Comment · 3 years ago
Bought it online directly from Nokia, though it came from their partner Ingram Micro.
Comment · 4 years ago
A couple of years ago I did a "Terminal Video Series" segment that also highlights the runtime overhead of 12 other languages, C of course actually one of the best ones: https://2ton.com.au/videos/tvs_part1/
Comment · 5 years ago
I routinely don't want persistent mount points. Imagine my: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdXY name
Followed by: mkdir -pv /dev/shm/name
mount -o noatime /dev/mapper/name /dev/shm/name
What this "RemoveIPC" did for me was rm -rf all of that, even if I mounted them as root.
That a single "RemoveIPC" difference between openSUSE 15.2 and 15.3, undocumented, caused me to lose all that data is one thing.
Another thing entirely to question WHY "RemoveIPC" is even a thing to begin with. I have never logged into any machine and said "wow look at all of this stale data taking up RAM in /dev/shm".
Comment · 5 years ago
In fairness, that history seems to indicate that maybe it really was SUSE who decided to enable it. Sure seems like "RemoveIPC" option should have been advertised as a 15.2 -> 15.3 update repercussion. :-( :-( Leap 15.2 didn't do that, 15.3 does. Unknown what the other systemd distros do with "POSIX shared memory cleanup"
Comment · 6 years ago
Flat Assembler is actually easier to get your head around early on than any of the *asm variants IMO: https://flatassembler.net/
Comment · 6 years ago
I also learned Z80 first, and I can say categorically that learning 16-bit x86 is NOT a good idea. To do anything useful in 16-bit, register starvation is a constant. Segmentation issues are actually hard problems.
I submit that if x64 existed early-on, no one would have bothered with higher-level abstractions. x64 is actually -pleasant- to code in natively.
Comment · 6 years ago
I wrote a Linux general purpose library for x64 assembler: https://2ton.com.au/HeavyThing/ and in recent months I decided to start doing video tutorials about the "how and why" of same. Learning I think is made easiest in Linux by learning how to navigate the syscall interface and how "man 2 write" becomes an important skill. Edit: Videos link as well: https://2ton.com.au/videos/
[0] https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=14612