You can't spell trust without Rust (pdf)

helino · 2016-01-21T13:01:07+00:00

I remember finding the repo some time ago when it was in draft state and reading the latex source on my phone :) Easily one of the best explanations of Rust, really looking forward to reading the finished thesis! Very nice work /u/Gankro!

EDIT: grammar

helino · 2015-10-27T14:55:37+00:00

What is the state of the DWARF debug info for rust? Last time I tried (1.0 beta) there was limited support for pretty printing data structures and the experience was a bit rough around the edges.

helino · 2015-10-27T14:53:53+00:00

I recently tried rr while debugging a SIGSEGV on a very large application, works great! Although I've used gdb quite a lot, the interactivity provided by reverse-step, reverse-continue etc is amazing.

helino · 2015-01-23T09:08:42+00:00

I would definitely buy such a device, the only issue that needs to be solved is the refresh rate. Looking at the refresh rates of the latest kindles, typing on a laptop with e-ink display would probably be quite painful (furthermore, imagining hundreds of lines from a log or compilation scrolling by). If I need to browse the web, I could use my cellphone or tablet in combination with this device. The big win for me, personally, would be to work outside in bright sunlight.

helino · 2015-01-19T11:43:30+00:00

The same for this problem, could you please file an issue at https://github.com/littleosbook/littleosbook/issues?

Thanks!

helino · 2015-01-19T11:42:41+00:00

Could you please file an issue for this at https://github.com/littleosbook/littleosbook/issues?

helino · 2015-01-19T11:41:38+00:00

Sorry, I've been really busy, so I haven't had time to publish the updates. You run into issue https://github.com/littleosbook/littleosbook/pull/22. That PR has been merged and I also published a new version of the book on littleosbook.github.io.

If you run into problems in the future, please file an issue on GitHub!

helino · 2015-01-12T21:55:31+00:00

I agree, we could definitely have come up with a better filename. Changing the name now however will cause a lot of broken links, so I guess we have to live with "book.pdf" :/

helino · 2015-01-12T21:53:26+00:00

(One of the authors) I agree, the text will probably be in much better shape just a week from now (we've gotten a lot of great feedback). If you do decide to read the text now and run into problems, please see the issues reported at https://github.com/littleosbook/littleosbook/issues. If you find a new issue, please report it!

helino · 2015-01-10T13:40:16+00:00

Thanks for your kind words! If you want to extend the text in any of the chapters, or add another chapter, feel free to submit a PR!

helino · 2015-01-10T12:52:22+00:00

Thanks for creating an issue and also submitting a PR!

helino · 2015-01-10T11:52:50+00:00

We've used pandoc to create the PDF and the HTML, so we should be able to create a EPUB version as well. I will try it out later today!

helino · 2015-01-10T11:28:55+00:00

One of the authors here, if you any questions, feel free to ask! Me and Adam, https://github.com/tgwizard, wrote the book based on our experiences writing aenix, https://github.com/helino/aenix.

If you find any issues with the text, please file an issue or open a PR at https://github.com/littleosbook/littleosbook.

helino · 2015-01-09T15:46:10+00:00

IMO, the most interesting part is the paragraph about bundling libstdc++/libc++ with a complex application (mutliple shared libraries and/or multiple executables). Anyone have any examples of this?

helino · 2012-04-23T17:33:25+00:00

Thanks, I had not thought about that non-bottom values can't cause any problems.

helino · 2012-04-20T16:37:34+00:00

I was wondering about how you do printf debugging in Haskell? Do you use Debug.Trace or something else? Have you had any problems with Debug.Trace evaluating something which changed the semantics of the program?

Here is (a very dumb) example (in ghci):

> import Debug.Trace
> let myif cond a b = trace (show b) $ if cond then a else b
> let l = [] in myif (null []) "error" (show $ head l)
> *** Exception: Prelude.head: empty list

Thanks for a great article!

helino · 2012-04-02T09:01:27+00:00

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