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He talks about it a bit as the "magic numbers". You can see the big table: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/c91b3c50068224929c... I guess there's also syscall emulation stubs for Windows but since he only supports "stdio and sockets" maybe not.
The author is a "she": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_Tunney
>zealous googler
At this rate GPL2 will stand for Google Public License.
>So I think it's really the best of times to be optimistic about systems engineering. We agree more on sharing things in common than we ever have. There are still outliers like the plans coming out of Apple and Microsoft we hear about in the news, where they've sought to pivot PCs towards ARM.
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>If a microprocessor architecture consensus finally exists, then I believe we should be focusing on building better tools that help software developers benefit from it
Considering ARM an outlier in a world were smartphones outnumber desktop PCs and where the x86 stronghold is under attack from several sides seems like a strange take to me.
Also, there's more to portability than managing to run a hello world from the same binary on Windows and Linux. I used to use FreeBSD a lot on the desktop, which usually involved using Linux binary compatibility to run Linux closed source binaries that weren't available on FreeBSD. It worked generally pretty well, but it wasn't without friction at times even though it was coded by very smart people and between two systems that were overall very similar.
These "compatibility" applications often end up as 2nd class citizen that don't integrate well with native applications, or at least not as easily. See Wine for instance, managing to run Windows applications on un*x is a huge undertaking.
>One of the reasons why I love working with a lot of these old unsexy technologies, is that I want any software work I'm involved in to stand the test of time with minimal toil. Similar to how the Super Mario Bros ROM has managed to survive all these years without needing a GitHub issue tracker.
I love emulation, so I definitely understand where this is coming from, but I don't really see what that has to do with the rest. In particular if you're willing to go down the emulation route, why do you care about everybody running x86? Super Mario Bros was not written to run on a Celeron. Besides CPU emulation for something like a NES video game is only a tiny part of the story, you also have to emulate the GPU, sound chip etc...
I feel like there's a mishmash of interesting ideas in there, but it's a bit confusing to understand.
People... Please stop using foreign alphabets like that! It's a nightmare for those of us who know the alphabets. It took me a good 20 seconds to read the title. And it's magnitudes worse when someone uses cyrillic for instance and it's native to me.
1) актуалли портабле екзекутабле 2) αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε What is easier to comprehend?
(Russian is my native language)
People... Please stop using foreign alphabets like that! It's a nightmare for those of us who know the alphabets. It took me a good 20 seconds to read the title. And it's magnitudes worse when someone uses cyrillic for instance and it's native to me.
You need to see when me and my friends start chatting in English written in Cyrillic. It's epic and utterly frustrating for the first hours, then becomes like native ;)
4 = ch
6 = sh
And some people keep on doing it. I can understand it when you have to switch between scripts every 2 seconds but most commonly that isn't the case and you are either having a conversation with someone or leaving it for later when you have time or when you feel like it...
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It turns out to be impossible to create a file that is simultaneously a valid ELF and Windows PE. The solution to this is to make a file that is simultaneously a valid PE and shell script, and have the shell script overwrite the start of the file with an ELF header and re-exec itself.
That means you can't copy the executable after executing once and have it run on Windows, correct?
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That means you can't copy the executable after executing once and have it run on Windows, correct?
Probably the rewriting is only done on the program loaded into RAM?
People... Please stop using foreign alphabets like that! It's a nightmare for those of us who know the alphabets. It took me a good 20 seconds to read the title. And it's magnitudes worse when someone uses cyrillic for instance and it's native to me.
HN’s title should probably be changed.
I don't think that's a good goal to have. Without competing architectures we'll enter a microprocessor dark age. Although the glory days of Alpha and IA64 are over, plenty of that experience was used to bolster today's instruction sets. Diversity is a good thing.
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"actmally rdrtable execmtable" that's more or less how it reads to someone who knows the Greek alphabet :-D (I might be partially wrong because I've studied Greek many years ago and my memory is not good)
It's somehow worse than "toys ya us".
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"Tunney has described Occupy Wall Street as a far-left movement.[13] Her former comrades have described her as a technocratic fascist.[14]" Wow, although I'm not familiar with her, this wiki article seems a bit melodramatic
How on earth has that article met the "notability" threshold?