In order to increase portability, I thought that eliminating inline assembler is the obvious way to go about it. In the root/include/libbb.h file, I replaced the following code (note Line 4): with   PThreads are a fairly complex method of threading in C. What they offer, though, is the ability to introduce portability into what…

Having played around with Busybox a bit, I was ready to go in and change around some settings, break some stuff, and hopefully put it back together in a more portable and optimized package, ready for anything the near future could throw at it! My first order of business was to search the code for…

I decided to look at Busybox for my first project, a program many call the “Swiss Army knife” version of Linux. It combines many common UNIX utilities into a small executable and provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in bzip2, coreutils, dhcp, diffutils, e2fsprogs, file, findutils, gawk, grep, ls, and…

When I first started learning Java, I missed the control over memory from C++. Even though I’m not fit to lick soup out of the bootprints of the Java designers and developers, I like to do things myself. Yeah. Coding in Assembly is a kick in the pants. First off, I attempted a loop that…

As the project I will be tackling involves porting x86_64 programs to AArch64, I must familiarize myself with assembly code. To get the basics down, I did something noone has ever done before: created a Hello World program in C. #include <stdio.h> int main() { printf(“Hello World\n”); return 0; } I then compiled it using…

To get an idea of how various bugs are fixed and patches submitted by the Open Source community at large, I looked around at a couple of different projects to see what’s been done. The first project I looked at was R, an environment for statistical computing and graphics. It operates under the GNU GPL.…