Saturday, November 23, 2024

Sony is crazy

 Amazing discovery of the day: on PlayStation 3, a single binary file can contain a mix of 32-bit code (i. e. code using 32-bit addresses) and 64-bit code.

The binaries are nothing special on the surface, ELF targeting PowerPC-64, but here I am, looking at a DWARF CU where address_size is 4.

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

They are eating their own dog food

The built-in build/release tasks of TFS Azure DevOps have manifests, too. And those manifests are right there in the database!

Friday, May 17, 2024

Punished for spelling out

Amazing discovery/public service announcement of the day: between v15 and v16 of the Azure DevOps' .NET client API, the definition of GitHttpClient and its base (where most of the methods are) underwent some changes that might be breaking.

Thursday, May 2, 2024

Saturday, April 13, 2024

I want to break free

Sometimes, one has release tasks in Azure DevOps (formerly known as TFS) that don't complete synchronously.

Friday, March 22, 2024

NET within NET

Amazing discovery of the day: you can host .NET 5+ within a .NET 4 application.