Hell Oh Entropy!

I’ve been around in the Free and Open Source world for over 20 years now, initially as a user but largely as a hacker.

So early last year I finished implemented everything needed for a fully working _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 so that disrtributions can use it out of the box.

I have been stereotyped by many I know (and understandably so) as a quintessential computer geek, probably someone who dabbled in computers since his childhood and is his first love.

How many of you have written this kind of code in the past: o = xmalloc (old_size); ... n = xrealloc (o, new_size); if (n !

Update: There’s a Links section at the end that should give you a list of all the reference you’ll ever need to undrstand Linkers and Relocations!

My background in computers is a bit hacky for a compiler engineer.

For some time now, I kept running into one specific piece of code in luajit repeatedly for various reasons and last month I came across a fascinating bug in the register allocator pitfall that I had never encountered before.

It’s been a different 3 months.

About 2.5 years ago I left Red Hat to join Linaro in a move that surprised even me for the first few months.

Since I joined Linaro back in 2015 around this time, my travel has gone up 3x with 2 Linaro Connects a year added to the one GNU Tools Cauldron.