Category Archives: Tech

ia64: Plan9, Compilers and ABIs

Posted on February 2, 2009 by Chris

So, I have my second-hand HP vx2000 (Single-CPU Itanium2 workstation) running in my room.  (OK, this itself is a mistake – it’ll be moved into the home office once I get sick of the added head in my room). For … Continue reading →

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At least I know I’m not imagining it…

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Chris

I’ve recently had the displeasure of having to update the copy of WANPIPE that we ship with our product at work from the old stable 2.2 family to the beta 3.3 family in order to support their new Synchronous Serial … Continue reading →

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C: The Preprocessor

Posted on December 10, 2008 by Chris

Sometimes you just have to step that extra mile and do something completely dodgy. The termios way for setting baudrates uses macros to represent the bitrate.  When you’re accepting a baudrate from the user, what’s the most sensible way to … Continue reading →

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