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0 pointsDuskHorizon2y ago0 comments

All system idiosyncrasies are APIs in the long run ;)

0 pointsDuskHorizon2y ago0 comments

All system idiosyncrasies are APIs in the long run ;)

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fifteen15062y ago· 4 in thread

The change of a SIGSEGV to a SIGKILL, seriously?

DuskHorizonOP2y ago

And, why not? macOS is Apple’s IP and they have all rights to do with it as they want. Buy the way, Chrome/Node.js JavaScript engine uses JIT compilation too. Are they affected?

samus2y ago

This breaks POSIX compatibility, which is basically saying FU to how a lot of developers expect to interact with an operating system for decades now.

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xcv1232y ago

No. MacOS is UNIX Certified. This is a bug in MacOS. Breaks POSIX compliance.

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bitwize2y ago

It's Apple saying "What part of 'you cannot write to this page of memory don't you understand?"

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