clausecker

UNIX famously uses fork+exec to create processes, a simple API that is nevertheless quite tricky to use correctly and that comes with a bunch of problems. The alternative, spawn, as used by VMS, Windows NT and recently POSIX, fixes many of these issues but it overly complex and makes it hard to add new features.

prepare() is a proposed API to simplify process creation. When calling prepare(), the current thread enters “preparation state.” That means, a nascent process is created and the current thread is moved to the context of this process, but without changing memory maps (this is similar to how vfork() works). Inside the nascent process, you can configure the environment as desired and then call prep_execve() to execute a new program. On success, prep_execve() leaves preparation state, moving the current thread back to the parent's process context and returns (!) the pid of the now grownup child. You can also use prep_exit() to abort the child without executing a new process, it similarly returns the pid

d7samurai

Minimal D3D11 sprite renderer

Minimal D3D11 sprite renderer: basic back-to-front sprite rendering reference code with example sprite sheet animation logic. As usual: Complete, runnable single-function app. No modern C++ / OOP / obscuring cruft.

Swap out the sprite sheet with a font atlas for a lightweight GUI / text renderer. Clip individual sprites and glyphs by offsetting screenPos and atlasPos to top left corner of visible area and adjusting size accordingly (all values in pixels):

sprite.screenPos.x += 17;
sprite.screenPos.y += 10;

d7samurai

Minimal D3D11 part 3

An elaboration on Minimal D3D11 pt2, adding shadowmapping and incorporating various improvements and alternative approaches to the rendering setup, such as manual vertex fetching, samplerless texture lookup, null shader depth map rendering and procedurally generated texture and instance data.

As before, this is intended to be an an "API familiarizer" - an uncluttered Direct3D 11 setup & basic rendering reference implementation, in the form of a complete, runnable Windows application contained in a single function and laid out in a linear, step-by-step fashion. No modern C++ / OOP / obscuring cruft, only ~190 LOC. View on YouTube

bramtechs

Upgrade Debian 9 (current WSL) to Debian 12 (bookworm testing)

Note: I do not maintain this gist anymore, but people report that it still works. Please check the comments for any revisions or extra things you should take into consideration.

As of writing, the Debian distro for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is quite old.

You can get more up-to-date package managers, text-editors and compilers by upgrading WSL to Debian 12 (current testing).

• Root required
• Use at your own risk, preferably on a fresh installation.

mmozeiko

#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <winsock2.h>
#include <windows.h>
#define SECURITY_WIN32
#include <security.h>
#include <schannel.h>
#include <shlwapi.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <stdio.h>

jart

/*-*- mode:unix-assembly; indent-tabs-mode:t; tab-width:8; coding:utf-8     -*-│
│vi: set et ft=asm ts=8 tw=8 fenc=utf-8                                     :vi│
╞══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╡
│ Copyright 2020 Justine Alexandra Roberts Tunney                              │
│                                                                              │
│ Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for         │
│ any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the         │
│ above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.      │
│                                                                              │
│ THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL                │

danmoseley

Unix code(s)

mohanpedala

Table of Contents

• set -e, -u, -x, -o pipefail
• set -e
• set -x
• set -u
• set -o pipefail
• Setting IFS
• Original Reference

set -e, -u, -x, -o pipefail

robey

;
; the "monitor ROM" of an apple 1 fit in one page (256 bytes).
;
; this is my attempt to take the disassembled code, give names to the
; variables and routines, and try to document how it worked.
;
;
; an apple 1 had 8KB of RAM (more, if you hacked on the motherboard), and a
; peripheral chip that drove the keyboard and video. the video was run by a
; side processor that could treat the display as an append-only terminal that

fay59

Here's a list of mildly interesting things about the C language that I learned mostly by consuming Clang's ASTs. Although surprises are getting sparser, I might continue to update this document over time.

There are many more mildly interesting features of C++, but the language is literally known for being weird, whereas C is usually considered smaller and simpler, so this is (almost) only about C.

1. Combined type and variable/field declaration, inside a struct scope [https://godbolt.org/g/Rh94Go]

struct foo {
   struct bar {
 int x;