I did an interview with the Software Freedom Conservancy to discuss why I try to contribute to the Conservancy whenever I can. Because I believe many more free software communities deserve to have a home for their project at the Conservancy. Please support the Software Freedom Conservancy by donating so they will be able to […]
Advogato has been archived. When I started working on Free Software advogato was the “social network” where people would keep their diaries (I don’t believe we called them blogs yet). I still remember how proud I was when people certified me as Apprentice. A lot of people on Planet Classpath still have their diaries imported […]
Hi Fedora Packagers, rawhide rpmbuild contains various debuginfo improvements that hopefully will make various hacks in spec files redundant. If you have your own way of handling debuginfo packages, calling find-debuginfo.sh directly, need hacks for working around debugedit limitations or split your debuginfo package by hand then please try out rpmbuild in rawhide and read […]
Valgrind 3.13.0 adds support for larger processes and programs, solidifies and improves support on existing platforms, and provides new heap-use reporting facilities. There are, as ever, many smaller refinements and bug fixes. See the release notes for details. There are binaries for Fedora 26 (beta) for aarch64, armv7hl, i686, ppc64, ppc64le, x86_64. And Copr builds […]
Valgrind 3.12.0 was just released with lots of exciting improvements. See the release notes for all the details. It is already packaged for Fedora 25. Valgrind will also have a developer room at Fosdem on Saturday 4 February 2017 in Brussels, Belgium. Please join us, regardless of whether you are a Valgrind core hacker, Valgrind […]
A jury found that using the declaring lines of code and their structure, sequence, and organization from Java constitutes fair use. Which is a great outcome of a terrible lawsuit Oracle filed some years ago trying to destroy free java. They started by trying to be a patent troll, but when that failed they tried […]
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Like every new GCC release, GCC6 introduces a lot of new useful warnings. My favorite is still -Wmisleading-indentation. But there are many more that have found various bugs. Not all of them are enabled by default, but it makes sense to enable as many as possible when writing new code. Duplicate logic In GCC6 -Wlogical-op […]
A package is more than a binary – make it observable Introduction I gave a presentation at Fosdem 2016 in the distributions developer room. This article is an extended version of the slide presenter notes. You can get the original from the talk page (press ‘h’ for help and ‘p’ to get the presenter view […]
ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) files are the standard binary format for GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems. They are used for executables, shared libraries, object and core files. There are two ways the data in an ELF file are described. The Program Headers describe the segments of the file that need to be mapped into […]