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OpenAI has released the specifications of the Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) protocol, and they are now publicly available as part of Open Compute Project (OCP) foundation. MR…

Dup of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952181

The presented LPE vulnerability was gradually introduced to the Linux Kernel through refactors and optimizations, each commit making sense on its own. The vulnerability itself was …

The employer doesn't "allow" them to take "time off" to fight as part of the IDF as reservists. This is the law in Israel, and has nothing to do with any employer whatsoever. Durin…

OK, now I understood the gap. There is a technical limitation for relocation resolution when the relocation is against a different section. This means that for function sections we…

Correct me if i'm wrong, but wouldn't "file-sections" be identical to generating a static bundle object per original object file, and wrapping them all inside a .a archive?

Thanks, appreciate your feedback. Crossing my fingers that my PR for GNU ld will go as planned.

> Regarding --whole-archive, is it correct that it would be the default and you could opt-out of it with the function-sections/gc-sections combination? This is the current intentio…

There is nothing magical in resolving the local relocations. It is just that current static libraries (static archives of plain .o files) are produced directly using "ar" and don't…

OP here, it was also my opinion that the handling of static libraries should significantly be improved, and ld should have a "--static-lib" flag to properly handle it. Sadly, the E…

The article is a follow up for an earlier thread of mine that was published here a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44613791 . While the previous article presen…

In the world we have more than just bugs. We also have features, and refactoring and whatnot. Prioritization should be done across all tasks, so a bug could be "medium" but the tea…

It would be interesting to know how many of bugs are triaged and declared as "won't fix" in order to comply with the zero bugs policy. Aside from that, while it might seem like an …

Not sure what is the measurable metric here, and what will be considered a success in this trial period. Propagating the fix downstream depends on the release cycles of all downwar…

If someone needs a wrapper for a technology, that modifies the output it provides (like meson and bazel do), maybe there is an issue with said technology. If pkg-config was never m…

Yeah, but when the product is an SDK, and customers develop on top of it (using their own toolchains) there isn't a lot left for me to play with.

1. "Advanced" compilation environments (meson) probably limit this ability to some extent. 2. Package managers (rpmbuild for instance) mandate build with debug symbols and they do …

Agree, there should be a prefix. But if 2 of my dependencies didn't use a prefix, why is it my fault when I fail to link against them? Also, some managers object to a prefix within…

RHEL tried that in that past with 64KB on AARCH64, it led to MANY bugs all across the software stack, and they eventually reverted it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2751320…

Rapid Content Update file (detection signatures) are tested on the cloud side "Content Validator" which had a bug and didn't detect the issue with the faulty file. No where in the …