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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-03-29 16:37:54
Content warning: C program bug, help sought

Friends who speak C, help me with a bug that I just can't see.
Source is here:
git.journeyman.cc/simon/post-s
As you can see, <string.h> is included at line 13.
At…

Editor window (eclipse) showing the problematic file, and GCC's error messages, as described in the post.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-03-21 13:56:44

OK, #Zig language people, where's a good place online to ask dumb newbie questions about Zig?
What I'm thinking of trying to build as an experiment is this:
git.journeyman.cc/simon/post-s

paged space objects
Paged space objects will be a generalisation of cons space objects. A page — all pages will be of the same size — will comprise a header, followed by an array of objects. All the objects in a given page will be of the same size. The number of objects in a page is simply the number of ...

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-03-16 11:27:37

Where I'm at on post scarcity:
* The garbage collector is doing even worse than it was on 4th
February, when I did the last serious look at it.
* The bignum bugs are not fixed.
* You can (optionally) limit runaway stack crashes with a new command line option.
* If you enable the stack limiter feature, `(member? 5 '(1 2 3 4))` returns `nil`, as it should, but if you do not enable it, `(member? 5 '(1 2 3 4))` still causes a segfault. WTAF?
Does no…