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Stafford Horne
Personal blog · stffrdhrn.github.iohardwaresystemsprogramming
Stafford Horne writes shorne in japan, a personal blog at stffrdhrn.github.io about hardware, systems and programming. Since 2018, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Thread Local Storage”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Personal site of Stafford Horne, linked as an example of a personal site and for a post on OpenRISC toolchain internals. One commenter cites it on how exception handling runs at the code level.
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.
Stafford Horne's (shorne, stffrdhrn) Computer Engineering blog and home page.
Most-linked posts?
- Thread Local Storage2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-19
- Unwinding a Bug – How C++ Exceptions Work2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-14
What Hacker News says?
I read your site, its great. This is mine, similar vibe :): https://stffrdhrn.github.io/
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted ELF Binaries and Relocation Entries as a story · 70 points
HN discussionIt is… not? It simply invokes the unwinder / exception handler, like _Unwind_RaiseException. For normal exceptions, no signals are involved. You can get an idea of what is executed at http://stffrdhrn.github.io/software/toolchain/openrisc/2020/... .
Comment linking /software/toolchain/openrisc/2020/12/13/cxx-exception-unwinding.html
on “The Cost of Exception Handling”Submitted OR1K Marocchino in Action as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unwinding a Bug – How C++ Exceptions Work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Relocations and Thread Local Store are Implemented as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thread Local Storage as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thread Local Storage as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted OR1K Marocchino a Tomasulo Implementation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GCC Important Passes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ELF Binaries and Relocation Entries as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted GCC Stack Frames as a story · 1 points
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