#Itanic’s Not a Thing (#NaT) bit can cause passing too few register parameters to a #C function to crash the program because the compiler tried to spill a NaT value to the stack. Also leaf functions that don’t create their own stack frames can get an Illegal Operation fault for “writing a stack register that lies outside the current frame”; SPARC-like sliding windows, I guess, but by variable amounts. #history #gross #facepalm
on 02026-04-29apparently the #football association invented a peace prize in October in order to award it to #Trump. #facepalm
on 02026-04-21"Erratum 9" for #Raspberry-Pi #RP2350 #electronics results in 120μA of persistent leakage current under certain circumstances. #microcontrollers #facepalm
on 02025-03-28a GCC bug that freed a stack frame one instruction before returning a value allowed interrupts to sometimes panic #Linux on ARM when compiled in 02021 with GCC 4.9.4 from 02014. So now you have to compile Linux with GCC 5.1. #facepalm
on 02021-01-24