Sunday 22 July 2018

Peak of the summer

Hi folks,

Hopefully you're enjoying the summer wherever it occurs :-)

Few updates since the last time, php7.3 will now use getrandom to have stronger randomness for random_* family functions. And speaking of randomness, finally nginx unit accepted my first patch :-)

Apart of this came back to static code analysis for LLVM a little, again string family functions checking while LLVM release freeze is approaching. Otherwise, the usual, fixing radare2 and couple of video games.

Also first time getting involved into programming language specs discussion targeted mainly for low resources machines but already multiplatform, Windows included, P# (not to be confused with the .NET one) while I fix few virtual machines bugs or adding few new functions. It is under active development ; we'll see how it goes ...

Some few events are scheduled for in some months but will keep you posted in due time as usual ;-)

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Tuesday 3 July 2018

Sunny summer ?

Hi folks,

The sun is surprisingly present these days in the emerald island !

Couple of tiny updates, took my first take at golang mainly targeted at FreeBSD (anyway the usual OpenBSD contributors are already doing an excellent work :-)), small things really just adding get random support for FreeBSD 12.x we ll see in November ...

About the future php 7.3 version, the feature freeze time is for August ; so i try to push in similar manner this new getrandom usage ... Beyond that a lot of zend engine optimisations had been done since 7.2 among other things.

And LLVM, as promised now OpenBSD is able to run most of UBsan unit tests, for next will try to make available X-ray and maybe fuzzer ones.

Also noted gzdoom is going to be available as package on OpenBSD, after LMMS ; things start to be visible slowly but surely ;-) ...

Finally contributed to musl libc, pretty well reputated, to add explicit_bzero. They just started to discuss adding an arc4random implementation, the hardest part is the blocking side as always ... I do not think they will choose Chacha family though but ... we ll see.

Professionally a little loop back to Windows programming very shortly back to unixes :)

Enjoy your summer !

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