Successfully filed a bug for GCC

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43215

This is the third time I encounter a real bug in GCC, the second time in a non-experimental component, and the first time I am the first to report. Unfortunately I’m unable to fix it, but other people have:

Index: i386.md
===================================================================
--- i386.md     (revision 157132)
+++ i386.md     (working copy)
@@ -3245,7 +3245,7 @@

     case 9:
     case 10:
-    return "%vmovd\t{%1, %0|%0, %1}";
+    return "%vmovq\t{%1, %0|%0, %1}";

     default:
       gcc_unreachable();

Tags: GCC, opensource

My first opensource project

has just been put on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/tiary/

tiary = A terminal-based diary keeping system for Unix-like systems

It runs in text mode, but mimics the GUI. It even supports mouse (through ncurses).

I write it simply because I need it. I’ll soon convert all my old diary to the tiary format (XML based; supports password protection).

Now the source has 15k lines (total) or 10k (valid lines; excluding comments).

Tags: dev, opensource, tiary

Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License

WTFPL stands for “Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License”. It is like GPL or BSD license or any other public license you may have heard of, but has no restrictions, allowing you to “do what the fuck you want to.”

            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
                    Version 2, December 2004

  0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

This is NOT joking. You can find software licensed under WTFPL in almost all major Linux distributions. The best known one may be the ASCII-art library libcaca, which is used by the well-known player mplayer. (In Gentoo you can find the text of the license at /usr/portage/licenses/WTFPL-2.)

You may want to ask if there is any difference from WTFPL to public domain. The authors explain that the definition of public domain varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and it is unclear in some countries whether works can be in public domain unless its authors have been dead for 70 years, but it is absolutely clear in most countries you have the right to choose a license for your works.

[Unlike other posts licensed under Creative Commons, this post is licensed under the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License.]

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Tags: opensource