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...ce, or even a general compiler-writer audience. Byte is far too strongly associated with 8 bits these days. > Octets are only ever 8 bits. You might be able to convert all uses of byte to octet and abandon byte entirely, but at that point why bother? It feels like a change just for the sake of pedantry. I like the "addressable unit" name, though it's a bit long (AddrUnit seems OK). It at least signals to a reader that there might be something weird going on. Getting someone writing new code to think in those terms is a different matter, of course, but I don't think any of the c...

Hi, There is a small typo in src/lib/network.c line 624 return "A non-recovable name server error occurred"; should be return "A non-recoverable name server error occurred"; Sorry about the pedantry. BTW, I am getting this error whenever I am trying to resolve a name from inside dovecot, but I can using the system tools. I am trying to get the proxying code to use hostnames as well as IP addresses. -Abhijit.

...als that you're willing to license on a per-manual basis, i'm still willing to chat. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

...ick or something? got a pointer to the canonical web page that has the directions? thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

...solutions like loop-aes and others, but what's considered the gold standard these days? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

...Apr 28, 2020 at 12:58 PM Ejjeh, Adel via llvm-dev < > llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > >> Specifically, I want to be able to know when a called function does not >> have any side effects (e.g. math library functions like sqrt) >> > > Apologies for the pedantry, but I believe sqrt may set errno, so it > actually can have side effects. :( See -fno-math-errno and the > documentation around it. > > >> , and was wondering if there are attributes that specify this behavior (I >> know there is the ‘noread’ attribute but wasn’t sur...

...nt a possible support contract for independent linux consultants. sound about right? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rpjday Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

...lence and increasingly defensive rhetoric, is not the way to do it. it just looks bad. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

Hi All I am writing a pass which requires checking dependences, and am having trouble dealing with function calls. Specifically, I want to be able to know when a called function does not have any side effects (e.g. math library functions like sqrt), and was wondering if there are attributes that specify this behavior (I know there is the ‘noread’ attribute but wasn’t sure if there’s something

...e appropriate for running large oracle databases. beyond that, i have no idea. thoughts? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

...munity is leaning toward addressable unit as terminology. > > > Octets are only ever 8 bits. > > > > You might be able to convert all uses of byte to octet and abandon > > byte entirely, but at that point why bother? It feels like a change > > just for the sake of pedantry. > > > > I like the "addressable unit" name, though it's a bit long > > (AddrUnit > > seems OK). It at least signals to a reader that there might be > > something weird going on. Getting someone writing new code to think > > in > > those term...

...ping up php to 5.3.1 on a stock centos 5.4 system while leaving everything else where it is? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

...s; I assume intptr would correspond to the width of a generic pointer, but non-generic address spaces are not constrained in any direction by the size of the generic address space. Of course, non-generic address spaces have no place in portable bitcode anyway, but I wanted to insert a note of pedantry into the conversation. :) >> Almost *all* constant folding would have to be deferred, which >> means you'd get big chains of constant exprs. This isn't a >> problem per-say, but something to be aware of. >> >> I don't like reusing existing...

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...lady in question is a good friend of mine. but don't let that scare you off. :-) rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

...t kidding, but this is interesting: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10376762-16.html rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

...r solution under centos? is there a "rawhide"/dev equivalent for centos? thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

...bothering to rebrand the manuals since it's just as easy to get that info from red hat. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

...hose packages? i suspect that, to be safe, i should download the ones from the zmanda site. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

...ysql 5.1 an option? (i realize that mysql 5.1 is *not* officially supported in centos 5.4.) rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================