Mac OS X Exception Handling
Purists and pragmatists will argue over the feature of converting hardware level exceptions into RTL exceptions. This is the feature where you catch, for example, a memory access violation and keep...
View ArticleMac OS X shared library initialization
I was part of the team that was passed through the Kylix threshing machine originally, so I decided to do a little research into shared library initialization and termination early on. Some very...
View ArticleDynamic Symbol Binding: Origins and Effects
Introduction Dynamic linking has been available on most operating systems for a long long time now. It is interesting, however, to peer into the origins and resulting behavior of some aspects of...
View ArticleMac Gripe: the CD/DVD drive
I love my Mac. I hate the CD drive in my Mac. I’ve hated all the CD drives in the Macs for a while. What I can’t stand about them is the lack of a physical manual eject capability. Others have had...
View ArticleSurrealism/Irony
So, I’m sitting in the Denver airport, on my way to Massachusetts, on a longer layover. I went to some crappy sports bar, and they had some very unpleasant food, and so I found a cantina upstairs that...
View ArticleOS X nslookup
Yesterday I finally switched from a Cisco add-on VPN to the built-in VPN support in Snow Leopard. The built in stuff is much nicer. Easy to use, performant. I had, however, a little hitch along the...
View ArticleSafari, Flash and _MEMORY_
This is a little bit of a dead horse beating, but it’s still relevant, so what the heck, why not. RAM is extremely important to me as a developer for the obvious reasons, so every once in a while, I...
View ArticleWell, _that_ was painful: #1
The title of posts like this is intended to indicate events that were pretty painful, and where the fault was all mine. So, shortening up the damage chain, on IA-32, if you do this: FSTP [some...
View ArticleBad API Design
So I almost got burned by a function. Partly my fault, because I didn’t read the online documentation on it. I looked at the API in the header file, and it had very limited documentation, but mostly...
View ArticleMinor Emacs Utility
I use Emacs quite a bit. It’s very common for me to be looking large dumps of data that are tabular in nature. Symbol table information, usually, but it could be lots of things. Usually it’s the...
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