Branch instructions on most architectures use PC-relative addressing with a limited range. When the target is too far away, the branch becomes "out of range" and requires special handling. Consider a

Embark on a journey about why you should sometimes trust your OS more than yourself.

I’ve been learning Rust lately. Rust is one of the most loved languages out there, is fast, and has an amazing community. Rust invented the concept of ownership as a solution memory management issues without resorting to something slower like...

Richard Hart, principal engineer at Antithesis, shares hard-won lessons from leading a database development project over the past year. The presentation covers three main categories: performance optimization, reliability and scalability, and software engineering…

Today I have created a repository containing Jan van Katwijk’s Ada- Compiler (pronounced as Ada Minus). In the context of our Ada 83 Memory wiki we came across Jan’s PHD thesis from 1987. And it describes a compiler for a large subset of Ada. The main exclusion…

Eight ways to implement defer in C.

Large language models sometimes produce structured, first-person descriptions that explicitly reference awareness or subjective experience. To better understand this behavior, we investigate one...

Approximately 212 RFCs so far, starting with RFC 269, contain the terms `foo', `bar', or `foobar' as metasyntactic variables without any proper explanation or definition. This document rectifies that deficiency. This memo provides information for the Internet…

wingolog: article: six thoughts on generating c

One of the biggest problems in kernel development is dealing with concurrency. In a system whe [...]

Exploring allocator design in C, C3, Hare, Odin, Rust, and Zig.