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Sticker needs a bit of design change & i’m feeling too lazy to do that! … … … … Get up makuchaku!

Finally managed to get hold of SIGCHLD signal when the child terminates. The code can be found here.

The parent wants to wait() for child’s exit, but not blockingly… how to do this? One of the solution, i found was to trap SIGCHILD. This signal is sent to the parent on child’s termination. The parent can then loop on a bolean variable to check for child’s existance, while doing other work… something i [...]

ptrace() needs to be reminded again & again that in what mode is it operating. So if you have to single-step through all the instructions in a program, you need to constantly call (or set) ptrace request to PTRACE_SINGLESTEP For example, this code will just single-step through first 10 instructions. while(1) { wait(&status); if(WIFEXITED(status)) { [...]

(gdb) disassemble main Dump of assembler code for function main: 0×08048368 : push %ebp 0×08048369 : mov %esp,%ebp 0x0804836b : sub $0×8,%esp 0x0804836e : and $0xfffffff0,%esp 0×08048371 : mov $0×0,%eax 0×08048376 : add $0xf,%eax 0×08048379 : add $0xf,%eax 0x0804837c : shr $0×4,%eax 0x0804837f : shl $0×4,%eax 0×08048382 : sub %eax,%esp 0×08048384 : sub $0xc,%esp 0×08048387 [...]

From past 4-5 days, I was hopping mad to generate Sticker’s class diagrams using autoDia, which was giving strange errors! Never in these 5 days I thought of using Umbrello directly for this…. & today morning, all I had to do was to ask Umbrello to “Import C++ classes”. It even generated the connecting arrows [...]

“”” After 2 days of hair pulling, 1 day of slogging, finally… its working… as expected, without any major setbacks to the design “”” [root@hddlntd6010590 sticker]# make clean; make /bin/rm -f main.o sticker.o stickerDebug.o stickerRegisters.o stickerException.o stickerBase.o sticker *~ g++ -c -g main.cpp -o main.o g++ -c -g sticker.cpp -o sticker.o g++ -c -g stickerDebug.cpp [...]

Come coding standards i wish to follow for

Sticker SRS is now available at Docs@Sticker Now the Sticker team has a direction

Today, heart_reaver (Arjun) has officially joined Sticker. He’ll be developing the test modules for Sticker (unit tests). I wish him good luck Why i made an offer to Arjun to join the project? His dedication & spirit to learn. Not everyone is a C expert, but those who have the courage & will power to [...]