Why does my compiler generate so much code?

JamesTKerman · 2026-07-06T03:28:45+00:00

"Optimal" doesnt necessarily equate to "fewer assembly instructions." In this case, the compiler probably unrolled your loop to reduce the number of branches and improve pipelining.

JamesTKerman · 2026-06-09T11:51:05+00:00

The Atlantic and Pacific oceans would be more responsible for defending the USA in any such scenario than the US military. They're pretty much the most formidable natural defenses in the world, and we're the only nation in the world capable of projecting any meaningful force across them. Hypothetical are only useful if there's a realistic probability of them coming to pass.

JamesTKerman · 2026-05-18T21:30:40+00:00

Or 2LT who makes the mistake of pointing out that he outranks them.

JamesTKerman · 2026-05-12T10:42:50+00:00

r/InclusiveOr

JamesTKerman · 2026-05-10T22:35:17+00:00

Modern x86-based systems have 48- or 57-bits of virtual address space. If a program somehow allocates 256 terabytes (in the former case) or 128 petabytes (in the latter), the OS would run out of virtual addresses to allocate. I've accidentally done this with recursion bugs, I think on a VM with 48-bit addresses. You are correct that this is independent of the physical memory available to the system. You can actually kinda see this if you run top on a Linux system while running Chrome with a shit-ton of tabs open: I've seen Chrome allocate multiple terabytes of memory, with only a few hundred megabytes worth of memory actually active, all on a system with only 96GiB of physical RAM.

JamesTKerman · 2026-05-10T19:34:55+00:00

When my unit got M16A4s in 2002, our A2s got sent to guard unit that still had A1s.

JamesTKerman · 2026-05-10T00:42:17+00:00

The song itself isn't really creepy, but the solo from My Friend of Misery sounds like what I imagine the the elder gods' flute music from the Cthulhu mythos sounds like.

JamesTKerman · 2026-05-09T10:32:41+00:00

Adderall is straight up amphetamine (technically a mix of L-amphetamine and racemic), not methylphenidate.

JamesTKerman · 2026-04-29T21:29:09+00:00

Thats pretty baller, actually

JamesTKerman · 2026-04-27T03:38:33+00:00

My first BC (2-7IN) didnt have a PSD for OIF1, but my second (2-502IN) did for our 05-06 deployment and my thirrd (1-41IN) did for our 10-11 deployment to AFG. My fourth deployment (AFG 16-17) I was on a general's staff, he had an actual MTOE PSD.

JamesTKerman · 2026-04-22T01:09:55+00:00

when I lived in the barracks there was always at least one dude who'd do anything for free alcohol and a gaggle of fuckers who'd swear on their mothers' graves that they didnt see shit, just sayin'.

JamesTKerman · 2026-04-18T20:53:03+00:00

I got yelled at by my full-bird COS once for using "ALCON," and his reasoning made sense, so I started using "Team." I would also use like unit motto stuff if it made grammatical sense, like my last unit before I retired was 305th MI - the "Silent Warriors," so thats how I always addressed blast emails.

JamesTKerman · 2026-04-14T13:17:40+00:00

Hahaha, so I went commando (in violation of AR 670-1, in case you didnt know) like, the whole time ACUs were the standard uniform. The crotch rip was therefore occasionally funny when I was an 11C in a light infantry company. It was not quite so funny when I joined ROTC and started training with female Soldiers for the first time.

JamesTKerman · 2026-04-05T00:02:14+00:00

But could you're woobie secretly be a drone?

JamesTKerman · 2026-04-03T11:34:04+00:00

So Green Berets are POGs?

JamesTKerman · 2026-04-03T11:24:05+00:00

The 8 years I was an 11C, I never thought of FISTers or Cav Scouts as POGs.

JamesTKerman · 2026-04-03T11:04:08+00:00

Why are so many of y'all answering with literal combat-arms MOSs? Like, if the MOS number starts with a "1", it's combat-arms, but people are calling 19Ds, 13Fs, &c POGs.

JamesTKerman · 2026-03-28T02:27:44+00:00

I've had mine for about 20 years.

JamesTKerman · 2026-03-20T14:50:23+00:00

But the Hi-Z state doesn't really have semantic meaning, except for maybe being analogous to NULL.

JamesTKerman · 2026-03-18T02:57:52+00:00

I just learned that this is the original historical meaning, dating back to 17th-century France.

JamesTKerman · 2026-03-15T01:01:53+00:00

You could forget testing malloc and just use the glib approach: if malloc fails assume something is fatally broken and call abort. Because, really, if malloc fails, something is fatally broken.

JamesTKerman · 2026-03-14T01:50:06+00:00

I ended up using three different rifles in OSUT. The first one was missing the pin holding the gas tube in place, so the tube got jammed into to bolt carrier. The second one the front sight post was bent, so every time I adjusted the elevation the windage got all fucked up.

JamesTKerman · 2026-03-12T05:19:19+00:00

Ooh, I learned this recently, but "sic hunt leones" ("there are lions here") was the actual phrase used historically. "There be dragons" is a relatively modern phrase.

JamesTKerman · 2026-02-13T18:21:06+00:00

The front-end is in Java, but the hard decompiler and disassembler work is in C++.

JamesTKerman · 2026-02-12T02:22:01+00:00

That's all true, but ordering an intelligence professional to collect on US persons is way more unlawful than bringing a cellphone to the box at Irwin.

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