Amidst the chaos brought upon my usual seasonal allergies, work turned out to be calmer than usual–the usual industry churn and constant rumors of layoffs have made “calmer” a relative term, though–so most of my evenings went to projects. I also re-read Project Hail Mary–partly because I needed something absorbing that wasn’t a screen, and partly because Weir is one of the few authors who makes engineering problem-solving feel like a page-turner. It holds up, and I can’t wait to see the movie. Mac Retro-HackeryRocketing away Last week’s PPC detour is, surprisingly, working much better than the 68k JIT, but already paid off: my naïve take on memory layouts meant that I hit one of the banes of modern emulation very fast–ASLR on aarch64 Linux was randomising addresses that the JIT needed to be fixed, but now I understand a lot of the issues I was having with 68K version. The fix for now was to have the binary disable its own ASLR at startup via personality(ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE) and re-exec,…
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