Posted in Uncategorized on February 26th, 2010 2 Comments »
The Dehydra installation instructions got to the point where they were more confusing than helpful. I spent this morning cutting out irrelevant crud, please let me know if there are any further cleanups that need to be done.
Posted in startup on February 19th, 2010 10 Comments »
I have been told that it should be possible to control the way the GNU linker lays out binaries. Unfortunately until recently I couldn’t figure out the right incantations to convince ld to do my bidding. Turns out what I needed was to be stranded on a beach in Fiji with nothing better to do [...]
Posted in static-analysis on February 9th, 2010 1 Comment »
A really good ACM article about static analysis from Coverity’s perspective has been making rounds in Mozilla. What struck me most was the following paragraph: At the most basic level, errors found with little analysis are often better than errors found with deeper tricks. A good error is probable, a true error, easy to diagnose; [...]
