A Smackerel of Opinion

Notes and jottings from an ex-Ubuntu Kernel Team Engineer

Friday, 23 November 2012

Using the gcc cleanup attribute

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Section 6.36 of the GCC manual describes the rather interesting cleanup variable attribute.   This allows one to specify a function to cal...
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Saturday, 17 November 2012

Benford's Law with real world data.

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If one has a large enough real life source of data (such as the size of files in the file system) and look at the distribution of the firs...
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Friday, 16 November 2012

Non linear characteristics in a draining battery on the Nexus 7

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Measuring power consumption on low power devices really is not as simple as running tools such as PowerTop and then assuming the data is tru...
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Saturday, 3 November 2012

Counting code size with SLOCCount

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David A. Wheeler's SLOCCount is a useful tool for counting lines of code in a software project.  It is simple to use, just provide it w...
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