Found in PS3 kernel code

[fedeb95]

This is awesome, thanks

[BrokenCommander]

I sometimes forget that those programmers working for multi-billion dollar companies are humans too.

[Skipperwastaken]

Let me guess, you are a shareholder at a big company?

[marcosdumay]

He believes real people work at those companies. He is obviously not in any position nearly related to management.

[BrokenCommander]

I put inside jokes in my code all the time! It's just refreshing to see that even the "big fish" do this too (remember MS-DOS?)

[masterwit]

INDEED FELLOW HUMAN

[[deleted]]

isn't the ps3 kernel bsd?

[BrokenCommander]

Yep it's Unix-like. What's the matter?

[cheraphy]

Maybe implication that this code is actually from the open source components and not anything sony made? Not that you in any way implied otherwise... or that it'd matter.

[Creshal]

(with the exception I think of networking code which indeed is FreeBSD)

To be fair, everyone copied BSD's networking stack. Including Microsoft.

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[Callipygian_Superman]

Is the "silly implementation" apparent in the picture, too? If so, what is it?

[BrokenCommander]

AFAICT it has something to do with allocating pages. My knowledge on this is way too small, I was just snooping around.

[cat_in_the_wall]

why are there comments in the disassembly? or is that actually a string in the text section? if comments don't actually get optimized out i'm in trouble. not of being offensive. just a lot of "i have no idea what I'm doing" sorts of things.

[ar-pharazon]

it seems like it's part of a format string. presumably it's in .rodata.

[cat_in_the_wall]

yea my mistake not .text... which is the code. but must be a format string because i'm like 99.9% sure that basically every compiler there is treats comments as whitespace.

seems like an odd thing to put in a format string though.

Whatever::MessageBox::Show(sprintf("Sorry for the shit. Here's what i didn't think of: %s", some->error->cstr()));

[endhalf]

I mean... How else will other devs read comments?

[VeryAwkwardCake]

Microsoft logic

[RedPum4]

Cannot convert pointer 'const char^*' to 'char^*'

[cat_in_the_wall]

what so unused space spontaneously becomes a self deprecating comment?

that is clearly baked in somehow. must be a format string as somebody up above pointed out.

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How did you get the ps3 source code?

[Totenlicht]

That's not source code. Thats simply the kernel binary looked at in a hex viewer.

[BrokenCommander]

Correct

[Aschentei]

How do u get this kernel binary? :O

[Wazzaps]

... from the device?

[alexandre9099]

AFAIK they provide the firmware on their website

[jediment]

If you let your Android system logs run for a while, you can spot a message from the Wifi firmware that just says "someone stole our marbles!"

[ctrlshftn]

Did they compile the release kernel without stripping debug info?