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by atgreen 11y ago
But didn't they support Oracle's suit against Google's free software Dalvik on this very basis?
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by atgreen 11y ago
I'd say that this part of the ABI is definitely something people code directly against - so there's really no distinction between API and ABI. The parts of the ABI you don't are things like the function calling conventions,
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by atgreen 11y ago
What I'm pointing out is the absurdity of the current state of law. It doesn't matter if Microsoft wrote all of the code from scratch, because according to them the definitions of the interfaces alone -- not code and not header f
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by atgreen 11y ago
I'm not talking about libc. I'm talking about the kernel system call interfaces. They are defined by the kernel, not libc.
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by atgreen 11y ago
As I understand it, Microsoft has copied the Linux kernel system call interfaces and provided their own underlying implementation. Given that Microsoft supported Oracle's view that the structure, sequence, and organization of the Java
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by atgreen 11y ago
For what it's worth, Red Hat's OpenJDK release is validated with the TCK. So not all OpenJDK builds are equal... https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013
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by atgreen 11y ago
AOT compilation for languages like Java is full of interesting challenges. I worked on gcj back in the day, and we had a super interesting Java/C++ interoperability scheme called CNI: https://gcc.gnu.org/java/pap
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Moxie Mixie: Frustrating Remote Attackers with Container Specific ISAs(moxielogic.org)
5 points by atgreen 11y ago|0 comments
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by atgreen 11y ago
Awesome. I worked on Guile almost exactly 20 years ago. It's probably very different from what it looked like back then. Emacs-on-Guile was one of Stallman's ideas back then, as well as using it for a GNU tcl implementation. S
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by atgreen 11y ago
A friend who knew him was interviewed for this story: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edi...
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by atgreen 12y ago
I was at Cygnus (and still at RH). The total deal value was actually much higher because it was a stock deal and the Red Hat stock price kept climbing before everything was wrapped up.
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by atgreen 12y ago
Here's a primitive ASCII graphics version of something similar from a while back... http://moxielogic.org/blog/nethack-in-your-browser.html The NetHack C code was cross built to moxie-rtems, which was run in a mox
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by atgreen 12y ago
> odd bedroom to bath ratio though This is a house for entertaining. The ratio makes sense.
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by atgreen 12y ago
"Lack of some features, most notably FFI and concurrency." Cool -- my '90s hacks are in demand! I added threading support to Guile and wrote libffi back in the 90s.
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by atgreen 13y ago
I love the Mountain View burrowing owl reference. Here's a '96 usenet news article I posted about the endangered burrowing owls I would bike past every day in Mountain View. It just happened to be right where SGI was about to bu
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by atgreen 13y ago
An AOT compiler was definitely the primary goal in the early years (my employer was contracted to deliver one for embedded developers). However, for a few of us at least, the main driver eventually became just to have a Free Software imple
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by atgreen 13y ago
I worked on gcj many years ago, and while I suppose it is sad to see it fade from view, I think most of us really felt like we had achieved our goal when Sun created OpenJDK and adopted the license we created (GPL + Classpath Exception).
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by atgreen 14y ago
In the preamble I freely admit that this project was based on naive assumptions and ideas. On the other hand, I believe that I was successful in building an architecture that a compiler writer would design, free from the knowledge of how a
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How To Retarget the GNU Toolchain in 21 Patches(atgreen.github.com)
70 points by atgreen 14y ago|4 comments
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Hosting Common Lisp web apps on Red Hat's OpenShift(github.com)
1 points by atgreen 15y ago|0 comments