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I fondly remember unaligned access faults "back in the day" with FreeBSD/alpha. We implemented a fixup for applications, but not for the kernel. I seem to recall that even though x86 could deal with unaligned accesses, it caused minor performance problems, so fixing alignment issues on alpha would benefit x86 as well. Most (definitely not all) of the mis-alignment problems were in the network stack, and were centered…
Could Rust's typesystem catch unaligned pointer dereferences?
I fondly remember unaligned access faults "back in the day" with FreeBSD/alpha. We implemented a fixup for applications, but not for the kernel. I seem to recall that even though x86 could deal with unaligned accesses, it caused minor performance problems, so fixing alignment issues on alpha would benefit x86 as well. Most (definitely not all) of the mis-alignment problems were in the network stack, and were centered…
Why in god's name did they make it 14?!
Also, was a "byte" standardized at the time? Didn't they still have systems working in not-8-bit "byte", nibbles, byte, and 2-byte boundaries?
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I fondly remember unaligned access faults "back in the day" with FreeBSD/alpha. We implemented a fixup for applications, but not for the kernel. I seem to recall that even though x86 could deal with unaligned accesses, it caused minor performance problems, so fixing alignment issues on alpha would benefit x86 as well. Most (definitely not all) of the mis-alignment problems were in the network stack, and were centered…
Why in god's name did they make it 14?!
While you've got the time machine, can you fix it so that "network byte order" and Intel endianness are the same too?
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Why in god's name did they make it 14?!
Ethernet was invented in 1973 and the first 32-bit processors were available in 1979. While you've got the time machine, can you fix it so that "network byte order" and Intel endianness are the same too?
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No, but posting while green will usually get your comment downvoted to oblivion, even if you are erudite and contribute to the conversation. Turn on "show dead comments" and see how many greens are deleted. I screenshot many examples.
Is this cause (ie. people downvote greens out of prejudice) or effect (greens are often created to shitpost? And to concentrate all my meta in one place... Is shadow banning a thing at HN? I thought they just, well, banned you.
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Is this cause (ie. people downvote greens out of prejudice) or effect (greens are often created to shitpost? And to concentrate all my meta in one place... Is shadow banning a thing at HN? I thought they just, well, banned you.
OT - new user here, what does green mean? I assumed it was staff/moderators.