Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Unix Userland as C++ Coroutines

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The Unix userland concept is simple. It has standalone programs that do only one thing which are then chained together. A classical example ...
Monday, September 12, 2016

The unspeakable horror of Visual Studio PDB files

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Disclaimer : everything said in the following blog post may be completely wrong. Since PDB files are (until very recently) completely undocu...
Friday, September 9, 2016

How to convert an Autotools project to Meson

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Converting a project using Autotools into Meson is usually not particularly difficult, just grunt work. The Meson wiki has a guide and lots...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

Weird USB disk slowdown with multiple readers

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I have a bunch of files and hard drives scattered about (as I'm sure many of you do, too). I wanted to transfer all of them into one dri...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Comparing GCC C cleanup attribute with C++ RAII

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I recently got into a Twitter discussion about the GCC cleanup extension in C vs plain old C++ (and Rust, which does roughly the same). Ther...
Monday, June 27, 2016

Running COBOL on Arduino using the Meson Build System

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IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM ID. COBOL-ARDUINO. DATA DIVISION. In my previous post we found out how to compile projects for the Ar...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Meson build system now has Arduino support

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After some midsummer hacking Meson now has support for building and uploading Arduino projects. (caveat: this MR  needs to land to master fi...