Today, I would like to discuss a project that I care very deeply about: the musl libc. One of the most controversial and long-standing debates in the musl community is that musl does not define a preprocessor macro. What’s in a macro? Simply put, preprocessor macros allow C code to build parts of itself conditionally. … Continue reading The musl preprocessor debate
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Live from Adélie: Streaming Spotify on musl
Over the July 4th holiday weekend, I was working on a secret project. It was a resounding success and I can now announce to the world: Spotify runs on musl distributions! This article will describe how I went about accomplishing this feat. If you just want to take Spotify for a test drive on your … Continue reading Live from Adélie: Streaming Spotify on musl
Big Endian Firefox: Now with more compositing
I'm currently in the process of trying to bring up the PowerPC platform as a fully supported architecture in Firefox. I've already implemented better support for XPCOM / JS interfacing, and fixed a crash in the JavaScript interpreter. My next challenge is fixing graphical issues, which is proving to be more of a challenge than … Continue reading Big Endian Firefox: Now with more compositing
The Joys of Unix Programming: MAP_ANON(YMOUS)
I was trying to do a little late-night hacking last night on SuperGameHerm, the Game Boy emulator my friends and I are writing, and I hit an error in the memory mapper. Specifically, certain OSes that used to be named after cats don't like calling mmap on /dev/zero (neither does Android). I thought it was … Continue reading The Joys of Unix Programming: MAP_ANON(YMOUS)
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