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New comment by freestanding in "LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions"

freestanding — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:16:34 +0000

extensions are detachable/optional, those arent extensions but features

New comment by freestanding in "System call instrumentation on Linux/x86‑64 using memory‑indirect calls, part I"

freestanding — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:47:30 +0000

ye, i see.. strange choice though "lisp". i would organize memory allocator and syscalls into a separate library, like here https://codeberg.org/determin1st/sm-c-base so you kinda have libc-substitute. also your memory allocator is kinda primitive for the runtime, better to steal that one, its heap-based with groups. syscalls look almost the same, not lone enough, kek.

New comment by freestanding in "System call instrumentation on Linux/x86‑64 using memory‑indirect calls, part I"

freestanding — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:30:39 +0000

FFI is a different term. i called LIBC bloatware because it comes with many stuff that is not needed and things that are not appropriate for the system API layer, like memory allocator, string primitives etc. it also has an old style naming, like_this_one_supposed_to_be_nice or whtabthis1?

windows's NTDLL (at least early versions) naming is much better and the layer is much thiner, the problem is that it is "undocumented". also its rigid portability, while libc binding makes NIX software non-portable. NT also has syscalls through the interrupt btw.

New comment by freestanding in "System call instrumentation on Linux/x86‑64 using memory‑indirect calls, part I"

freestanding — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:46:00 +0000

thats why OpenBSD is unconvinient for development - because it binds to libc bloatware

Build of freestanding extensions for PHP is now available

freestanding — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:15:05 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/determin1st/php-sm-test

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567772

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