Notices by Simon Brenner (olsner@social.vivaldi.net)

@poleguy @whitequark twice to verify reproducibility? Or once with cheats and once without but carefully engineered to produce the same checksum? 😁

@f4grx @whitequark I would say the point is convenient arch-independent access to crc hardware - you should get the special instruction when the polynomial matches whatever your cpu has and hopefully a clmul based fallback before resorting to a table. Much nicer than a tangle of ifdefs for every architecture and the research needed to know every crc instruction and which crc variant it produces…

I guess if you were properly enthusiastic about crcs you’d already be maintaining specialized assembly for 14 architectures and every commonly used polynomial and this is not so interesting… but now the rest of us can get gcc (or gcc’s architecture maintainers) to do it for us?

@dalias which part of the IDE? Sounds like your main gripe is the editor (annoying itself though with popups and ”helpful” completions and other clutter), but the part I dislike the most is the integratedness. I don’t want my debug/test/build/edit/navigate stuff all tangled up in the same program and blocking each other. One vim and a big bowl of terminals is what I want.

@lanodan @jonty the C in USB-C of course stands for Centronics.

@JoshJers in my compilers course, a compiler was defined as a program primarily translating code into error messages, with machine code emitted as an occasional side effect.

@clacke fix it in post? record one proper eatch and paste it on top of every eash 😄

Got a sixth sense of humor. Hard to describe, it’s just a funny feeling…

@clacke ziplock bags perhaps?