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ADHOC 2005 Papers Publicly Available

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The first technical papers have been made publicly available from the ADHOC (The Advanced Developers Hands On Conference) website. It includes, but is not limited to: “Cross-Platform Approaches from a Macintosh Perspective”, “Hacking the Mac OS X Kernel for Unsupported Machines”, “Program Analysis and Verification on Mac OS X”.

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  1. 2005-07-31 3:38 pm
    Anonymous

    It’s a minor point, but in the Types++ paper summary…

    C/C++ (and other strongly, statically typed languages)

    Isn’t C/C++ generally considered a weakly statically typed language? That is, you’re able to cast to a different type even when doing so is unsafe?

    • 2005-08-01 12:22 am
      Anonymous

      Your both right (and wrong :-), as:

      C is weakly typed

      C++ is strongly typed

      C and C++ should not be /’ed together in this case.

      • 2005-08-01 1:48 am
        Anonymous

        Hi, I’m Ryan Wilcox, the author of the paper.

        I would agree with the previous comment that C is mostly weakly typed, and C++ is strongly. The only thing that is “strongly typed” about C is that you can’t pass one kind of struct into a function that expects another. Base types in C are weakly typed (you’ll just get a warning, if you get that at all, about passing a long as a parameter to a function that takes a short.)

        C++ is strongly typed – while you can make unsafe casts (cue dynamic_cast<> ;) ) you can’t pass a Circle as a parameter to a function that accepts a Square.

        Feel free to comment on my paper on my blog too, as I’m more apt to see it there.

        Thanks,

        _Ryan Wilcox

        http://radio.weblogs.com/0100544/2005/07/31.html#a1155

  2. 2005-07-31 6:54 pm
    apple1984

    Would this be related to allowing 10.4 Intel to run on generic PCs?