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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 →

For many years I have used fossil as my source control of choice. It was my first source control and it was a revolution for me. So many projects I have completely fucked up by not using source control. Fossil … Continue reading →

So I was working on some existing code written in assembly and self-modifying. I was trying to reduce the amount of self-modifying code by replacing some self-modified immediates with register values where registers where available to hold said values. To … Continue reading →

For many years I have worked on the insanity which is my exe-modifier. This insane piece of software is basically a linker which can insert objects into an existing executable. This allows one to make extensive changes to an existing … Continue reading →

So today I was doing some coding and was greeted with this message: “reference to ‘byte’ is ambiguous”. Of course I was very confused but after a close examination of the error message I noticed this: “candidates are: ‘enum class … Continue reading →

So I was just checking out the new gcc-9 release and I discovered something to my surprise. They have done something exceedingly rare, they have actually fixed one of their many insane long-standing code-gen bugs which have caused me major … Continue reading →

I have created a small sonic hack that massively increases Sonic’s running speed. I know this had been done to death however my hack has a feature I have not seen in previous speed hacks. My hack increases the scrolling … Continue reading →

I have just released a new version of the vgm player, V3.42. It fixes a serious bug that I missed with the previous version. Also adds support for V1.61 and V1.70 vgm files. The bug was this: writing misaligned data … Continue reading →

Well it became necessary to make updates to one of my old projects, the Vgm player. And that happens to be built with a dos application SNASM68K. At this point I have fully migrated over to 64bits so this presented … Continue reading →