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   by yuhong 8y ago

   Yea, they just open sourced it, so it might take a while for it to be packaged for Debian. I don't even know if it is ported to Linux yet at this point.
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   by yuhong 8y ago

   Though it is worth mention that the runtime code that implements BIOS services (INT 10h, 11h, 12h, 13h, etc...) for the most part can't switch to protected mode without breaking compatibility.
3. 333.▲
   by yuhong 8y ago

   Yea, this is not about performance. This is about license problems. For code like BIOS, pretty much any good 16-bit C compiler should work.
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   by yuhong 8y ago

   It would be for things like the BIOS you use to boot your VirtualBox VMs which has to be 16-bit real mode code. Hopefully the compiler itself runs on Linux already (though this is only needed for building the code).
5. 335.▲
   by yuhong 8y ago

   And even for things like BIOS they can be useful, and that is what I am most interested in.
6. 336.▲
   by yuhong 8y ago

   Probably not yet, but the license means that it can be.
7. 337.▲
   by yuhong 8y ago

   And even writing some 16-bit code using gcc is not impossible too. The problem is that it lacks support for things like near and far pointers.
8. 338.▲
   by yuhong 8y ago

   Problem is that x86 segmentation support is lacking, which is important for things like the BIOS.
9. 339.▲
   by yuhong 8y ago

   I had an issue about the problems: https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2/issues/271
10. 340.▲
    by yuhong 8y ago

    Context: The Open Watcom license has been a problem for years.
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    Consider using Digital Mars C compiler(virtualbox.org)

    85 points by yuhong 8y ago|43 comments
12. 342.▲
    by yuhong 8y ago

    I have been asking for them to fix the license on Open Watcom for a while now. A C compiler that has full support for x86 segmentation would be very useful for some projects.
13. 343.▲
    by yuhong 8y ago

    It would be fun to port the Mac version to x86.
14. 344.▲
    by yuhong 8y ago

    Trivia: A lot of the student loans that are paid off when Bitcoin etc prices increases are private student loans.
15. 345.▲
    by yuhong 8y ago

    I wrote an entire essay about one problem: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2018/04/google-doubleclick-mozi...
16. 346.▲
    by yuhong 8y ago

    Personally, my favorite is Larry and Sergey. I wrote an essay about one problem: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2018/04/google-doubleclick-mozi...
17. 347.▲
    by yuhong 8y ago

    I don't like the idea of the current debt based economy that allows infinite amount of US debt to be printed in the first place, effectively meaning that other countries has to be poorer.
18. 348.▲
    by yuhong 8y ago

    I think many was EOLed when the Freescale Sendai fab shut down.
19. 349.▲
    by yuhong 8y ago

    https://twitter.com/berendjanwever/status/775366191078641664 "One of the reasons I left Google was because "don't be evil" got replaced by "collect and monetize information"" Not
20. 350.▲
    by yuhong 8y ago

    I mention the GDPR briefly in my Google/DoubleClick essay: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2018/04/google-doubleclick-mozi...
21. 351.▲
    by yuhong 8y ago

    It is not NPAPI. It has not been supported since IE 5.5 SP2.
22. 352.▲
    by yuhong 8y ago

    This completely ignores that the definition of open source code is that it can be audited.
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    Bug 1424373 – Tab crash reporter is activating auto-submission of crash reports(bugzilla.mozilla.org)

    1 points by yuhong 8y ago|0 comments
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    by yuhong 8y ago

    The fun thing is the 286 didn't fix this either. This is why the MOV SS came first (in protected mode the selector may not be present for example). This was a problem for DOS where SS was often used to access the DOS data segment.
25. 355.▲
    by yuhong 8y ago

    That one will take trace exceptions though.
26. 356.▲
    by yuhong 8y ago

    I bet whitelisting only instructions that can change SP/ESP would not break the majority of x86 code. All other instructions would behave as if MOV SS had not been executed.
27. 357.▲
    by yuhong 8y ago

    My essay focuses on Google and DoubleClick specifically: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2018/04/google-doubleclick-mozi...
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    by yuhong 8y ago

    I wonder why my essay has gotten little attention: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2018/04/google-doubleclick-mozi... I was planning to write it before Facebook hits the news.
29. 359.▲
    by yuhong 8y ago

    Intel CET I believe.
30. 360.▲
    by yuhong 8y ago

    They didn't even do the LSS instruction until the 386.