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Tuesday, September 08, 2015

“a cage for half a dosen of hennys or chekyn to have with yow in the galey, for ye schal have nede unto them meny tymes.”

“Guard your face carefully from the enormous insects,” instructs the guide for 12th-century pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela, “and if you do not watch your feet carefully, you will slip rapidly up to your knees in the quicksand.”

…

I hereby share some of this bounty with 21st-century travelers. Whatever the nature of your next voyage, this advice should help you get there and back again without falling victim to thieves, plagues or enormous insects. (You’ll have to find your own coping mechanisms for jet lag and selfie- stick malfunction.)

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Seat location is also important. Wey offers this compelling advice: If you go in a galley, choose a seat in the top level, because the lowest level is “ryght smolderyng hote and stynkyng.” Similarly, Brasca cautioned that the traveler “should take care to arrange in good time — especially if given to suffering from the head on account of the movement of the sea — to have his lodging in the middle of the galley and near a middle door in order to have a little air.” …

Via Hacker News, What tips for traveling have changed since medieval times? Surprisingly few. - The Washington Post

Wow! To think that even 500 years ago they were complaining about conditions in coach!

I don't think anybody actually uses this instruction

Odd.

The runtime code for DynASM looks a bit … odd, and I was curious what Valgrind had to say about it.

[spc]lucy:~/source/jit>valgrind ./calc
==15664== Memcheck, a memory error detector.
==15664== Copyright (C) 2002-2005, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==15664== Using LibVEX rev 1575, a library for dynamic binary translation.
==15664== Copyright (C) 2004-2005, and GNU GPL'd, by OpenWorks LLP.
==15664== Using valgrind-3.1.1, a dynamic binary instrumentation framework.
==15664== Copyright (C) 2000-2005, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==15664== For more details, rerun with: -v
==15664== 
x = 1 - 0
vex x86->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0xCE 0x66 0xA3 0xCE
==15664== Your program just tried to execute an instruction that Valgrind
==15664== did not recognise.  There are two possible reasons for this.
==15664== 1. Your program has a bug and erroneously jumped to a non-code
==15664==    location.  If you are running Memcheck and you just saw a
==15664==    warning about a bad jump, it's probably your program's fault.
==15664== 2. The instruction is legitimate but Valgrind doesn't handle it,
==15664==    i.e. it's Valgrind's fault.  If you think this is the case or
==15664==    you are not sure, please let us know.
==15664== Either way, Valgrind will now raise a SIGILL signal which will
==15664== probably kill your program.
==15664== Use of uninitialised value of size 4
==15664==    at 0xBC945C: _itoa_word (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0xBCCA09: vfprintf (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0xBE5ACA: vsprintf (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0xBD2DEA: sprintf (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0x804ACA3: crashreport_hexdump (crashreport.c:154)
==15664==    by 0x804B2BD: crashreport_handler (crashreport.c:388)
==15664==    by 0xBB79AF: (within /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0x804A9DD: main (calc.dasc:472)
==15664== 
==15664== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==15664==    at 0xBC9462: _itoa_word (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0xBCCA09: vfprintf (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0xBE5ACA: vsprintf (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0xBD2DEA: sprintf (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0x804ACA3: crashreport_hexdump (crashreport.c:154)
==15664==    by 0x804B2BD: crashreport_handler (crashreport.c:388)
==15664==    by 0xBB79AF: (within /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0x804A9DD: main (calc.dasc:472)
==15664== 
==15664== Use of uninitialised value of size 4
==15664==    at 0xBC9474: _itoa_word (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0xBCCA09: vfprintf (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0xBE5ACA: vsprintf (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0xBD2DEA: sprintf (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0x804ACA3: crashreport_hexdump (crashreport.c:154)
==15664==    by 0x804B2BD: crashreport_handler (crashreport.c:388)
==15664==    by 0xBB79AF: (within /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0x804A9DD: main (calc.dasc:472)
==15664== 
==15664== Use of uninitialised value of size 4
==15664==    at 0x804ACC0: crashreport_hexdump (crashreport.c:155)
==15664==    by 0x804B2BD: crashreport_handler (crashreport.c:388)
==15664==    by 0xBB79AF: (within /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0x804A9DD: main (calc.dasc:472)
  not in syscall (0xB0044ADC - 0xB0044B31)

valgrind: m_syswrap/syswrap-main.c:606 (vgPlain_client_syscall): Assertion 'sci->status.what == SsIdle' failed.
==15664==    at 0xB000E029: report_and_quit (m_libcassert.c:122)
==15664==    by 0xB000E1C2: vgPlain_assert_fail (m_libcassert.c:185)
==15664==    by 0xB003AEA6: vgPlain_client_syscall (syswrap-main.c:606)
==15664==    by 0xB002C826: handle_syscall (scheduler.c:623)
==15664==    by 0xB002CAED: vgPlain_scheduler (scheduler.c:726)
==15664==    by 0xB0014568: final_tidyup (m_main.c:2716)
==15664==    by 0xB00141C9: shutdown_actions_NORETURN (m_main.c:2578)
==15664==    by 0xB003C2D5: run_a_thread_NORETURN (syswrap-linux.c:139)

sched status:
  running_tid=1

Thread 1: status = VgTs_Runnable
==15664==    at 0xD080B5: pthread_once (in /lib/tls/libpthread-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0xC9BB76: free_mem (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0xC9B811: __libc_freeres (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0x4000336: _vgw_freeres (vg_preloaded.c:62)
==15664==    by 0xBB78C4: raise (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0x804B3E7: crashreport_handler (crashreport.c:495)
==15664==    by 0xBB79AF: (within /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==15664==    by 0x804A9DD: main (calc.dasc:472)


Note: see also the FAQ.txt in the source distribution.
It contains workarounds to several common problems.

If that doesn't help, please report this bug to: www.valgrind.org

In the bug report, send all the above text, the valgrind
version, and what Linux distro you are using.  Thanks.

[spc]lucy:~/source/jit>

Really Valgrind? You don't support the INTO opcode? Wow …

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