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Félix Abecassis
Personal blog · felix.abecassis.meprogrammingsystems
Félix Abecassis's personal blog at felix.abecassis.me covers programming and systems. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link posts on this blog as technical references: one on SSE saturation arithmetic, cited as an x86 counterpart to integer overflow behaviour. Comments only cite or link, with no judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
And x86 (SSE). http://felix.abecassis.me/2011/10/sse-saturation-arithmetic/
Comment linking /2011/10/sse-saturation-arithmetic/
on “Myths about Integer Overflow in Rust”Submitted Crashing competing media players on Android as a story · 49 points
HN discussionDo you have access to the program that reads the data? If so, you can use a debugger to step through the parser for the file, even if symbols are stripped [1]. You can breakpoint on syscalls, such as when the file gets opened [2] and then step through and look around memory for the decrypted version. If you have an idea of what the file should contain you can probably identify patterns this way. I'm not an expert on…
Comment linking /2012/08/gdb-debugging-stripped-binaries/
on “Fq: Jq for Binary Formats”