Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-28 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 11/28/2013 03:28 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > And, according to the article that started this thread, isn't going to > do the job, either, since many of our primary compilers now optimize > more than they are able to warn about even at the lowest level of > optimization. This should be enough to thro

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-27 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 27/11/13 13:10, Wade Richards wrote: Also, the deeper you get into the optimized code, the harder it is to issue meaningful source-level warnings. E.g. when the compiler optimizes: static int decimate(x) { return x/10; } int foo() { int a=INT_MAX; int b; for(i=0; i<100; ++i) { b=max

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-27 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 26/11/13 11:37, Mark Haase wrote: Compiler developers, for better or worse, reserve the right to do whatever they want with undefined behavior, and it's up to the person writing the C code to not include undefined behavior in their own program. That's a fallacy. The fact that a compiler does

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 15:59 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Hello all, > > I debian or other 'nix suceptible in any way to anything anybody can put > in an email? I'm guessing that if someone comes up with something that > can break e.g. mutt that mutt will be fixed around the same time as a > v

Re: Ping my modem...

2007-08-27 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:42:41 -0700, Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --} > Is the following a normal reply from a satellite modem to ping:- --} > --} > ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted --} > ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted --} > ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted --} > ping:

Re: Recomendations - becoming a C soldier.

2007-08-10 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:27:18 -0700, Orestes leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: QUESTION: Studying C 'every day' 4 hours with good understanding, writing at least 10 programs to test this knowledge every day, the question it: How Long Can I become a very 'very' good C programmer to the point

Re: Opera is faster, but...

2007-07-09 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:20:33 -0700, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On an unrelated matter I installed Opera on Sid. >> > >> > It *is* faster than iceweasel. >> > >> I have always thought that FireFox was faster than Opera. > > Seamonkey it's the fastest. None faster than elinks. ;-) I

Re: Opera is faster, but...

2007-07-09 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:17:45 -0700, Orestes leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:05:11 -0400 Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 09 July 2007 1:06 pm, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > On an unrelated matter I installed Opera on Sid. > > It *is* faster than ic

Re: [OT] gob.mx = IE6 only!

2007-07-08 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 05:33:46 -0700, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tried to register at this site: http://www.trabajaen.gob.mx/servlet/CheckSecurity/JSP/jobsite_g/alta_usuarios_nuevos.jsp?estado=0 Complete registration will only work for Mexican nationals because of the RFC and

Re: XP and Debian: dual boot?

2007-05-28 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Mon, 28 May 2007 22:25:15 -0700, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am planning to install the Debian with my XP as a dual boot. Any suggestions where to go to find some nice guidelines for this process...? Usually Debian will detect your Windows partition and add an entry for you automatically.

Re: why linux?

2007-05-23 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Wed, 23 May 2007 10:45:32 -0700, S C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Using Ubuntu is a good idea too, in fact I have a live cd of Kubuntu and I also have Suse Linux 10.1 and 10.2. But, and this you could not possibly know, irreplaceable pictures digital pictures are on the hard drive http:

Re: DNS in Windows environment

2007-05-14 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Mon, 14 May 2007 12:52:08 -0700, Loeghmon T. Nejad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I like to set up a DHCP/DNS server (on Debian Etch) for Windows clients, *Only* DHCP/DNS? DHCP is OS independant, so your question boils down to the DNS server. You might want to either try setting up a WINS s

Re: Problem with iptables

2007-05-04 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Fri, 04 May 2007 00:45:06 -0700, Pierguido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: Strange: With this rule as the *first* rule in the OUTPUT chain, *everything* outgoing should be accepted, regardless of source, destination or protoc

Re: debian way to start firewall

2007-05-03 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Thu, 03 May 2007 17:30:47 -0700, Tom Furie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 08:04:53AM -0700, Octavio Alvarez wrote: You might as well put some iptables-restore at the endo of the "up" of each interface in /etc/network/interfaces. This lets you control y

Re: debian way to start firewall

2007-05-02 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Wed, 02 May 2007 04:06:13 -0700, Vladi Lemurov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Distro etch, stable, i386. I have a firewall script (based on iptables) and it works perfectly on debian and other distros but where am I to put it? I found nothing in debian-reference (at least grepping "

Re: serial-usb adapter on Etch?

2007-04-26 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:22:30 -0700, eva sjuve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm looking for an serial-usb adapter (usb-db9) that has drivers in Etch? I'm currently using a Prolific PL-2303. (w/o brand) -- Octavio. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-21 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:26:40 -0700, Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FS=" " IFS, I suppose. But: Why do you set it? ugh... good question. I wrote this ages ago ;-) To make sure spaces in filenames don't break them apart? -- Octavio.

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-17 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:24:57 -0700, Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since I frequently receive files from Microsoft Windows users, is there any utility to unix-ify file names, that is, use lower case exclusively, use hyphen as separator, etc.? I use something like this: #!/