Nikolay Igotti
Thursday Jul 19, 2007
Explicit template instantiation in shared libraries
When explicit template instantiation saves the day.[Read More]Posted at 11:09PM Jul 19, 2007 by nike in Sun | Comments[0]
Saturday Jul 14, 2007
Double mapping of memory regions on Unix
Mapping same physical memory pages onto several different virtual addresses locations at the time from the userland.[Read More]Posted at 04:54PM Jul 14, 2007 by nike in Sun | Comments[0]
Sunday Jul 08, 2007
Hotspot internals Q&A
If you have question on Hotspot VM internals - feel free to ask here.[Read More]Posted at 12:22PM Jul 08, 2007 by nike in Sun | Comments[15]
ILP64, LP64, LLP64
What LP64, LLP64, ILP64 stands for?[Read More]Posted at 10:32AM Jul 08, 2007 by nike in Sun | Comments[1]
Thursday Jul 05, 2007
Raw page table access
Solaris x86 code demonstrating raw access to CPU's page table. As usual, don't try this on sensitive machines (although this code is pretty safe). [Read More]Posted at 06:26PM Jul 05, 2007 by nike in Sun | Comments[0]
Wednesday Jul 04, 2007
Debugger for Win32 (v2)
Mini-debugger for Win32 allowing tracing even statically linked binaries, not only imported symbols.[Read More]Posted at 04:09PM Jul 04, 2007 by nike in Sun | Comments[0]
Tuesday Jul 03, 2007
Neat book
Frank Hoffman at Solaris team wrote this book which is neat summary of x86/amd64 low level programming. I like it.Posted at 04:05PM Jul 03, 2007 by nike in Sun | Comments[1]
Friday Jun 29, 2007
SPARC ASIs
Using SPARC address space identifiers(ASIs) in application programming.[Read More]Posted at 09:33PM Jun 29, 2007 by nike in Sun | Comments[2]
Wednesday Jun 27, 2007
VTBL games
Virtual functions table in C++ - an easy target of accidental or intentional override. [Read More]Posted at 10:00PM Jun 27, 2007 by nike in Sun | Comments[0]
Tuesday Jun 26, 2007
Overriding symbols on Win32
Override symbol in runtime on Win32, a-laLD_PRELOAD+RTLD_NEXT on Linux.[Read More]
Posted at 05:08PM Jun 26, 2007 by nike in Sun | Comments[2]
Memory debugger for Windows
Debugging memory access on Windows using x86 debugging registers.[Read More]Posted at 11:18AM Jun 26, 2007 by nike in Sun | Comments[0]
Monday Jun 25, 2007
memory debugger for linux
Debugging complex memory problems using x86 CPU debugging registers.[Read More]Posted at 07:45PM Jun 25, 2007 by nike in Sun | Comments[0]
Sunday Jun 24, 2007
More fun with SEH
How to modify other frame's exception handler (don't try this at home).[Read More]Posted at 03:55PM Jun 24, 2007 by nike in Sun | Comments[0]
Saturday Jun 23, 2007
dd story
Whydd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=900M count=1 behaves on Linux so unbelievably well, even
if system RAM is only 256M?[Read More]
Posted at 12:04AM Jun 23, 2007 by nike in Sun | Comments[0]
Thursday Jun 21, 2007
Simple JIT compiler for your application
Using dynamical code generation for squeezing optimal performance out of your application.[Read More]Posted at 09:50PM Jun 21, 2007 by nike in Sun | Comments[0]