Monthly Archives: November 2019

So I nearly pulled out all my hair today trying to figure out the most insane and bizarre problem. I thought my OS had gotten fucked up in some way, even worried that I had some kind of infection. There … Continue reading →

So it is usually the case that I compile my code with -Os, this results in nice and compact code, however gcc tries too hard to make the code as small as possible sometimes making it very slow. I was … Continue reading →

So today I was trying to build a module where a few functions were placed at fixed addresses, well it turns out there is absolutely no way to do such a thing with ld. Sure you can place a section … Continue reading →

In c/c++ there is a major issue which is responsible for a significant proportion of all software security and stability problems. The bullshit integer model: for each operator of an expression its operands are first promoted to integer and then … Continue reading →