**see shy jo** @joeyh · 2018-01-31T19:10:12Z

see shy jo @joeyh

Started doing some actual work today. Then I encountered this comment:

/* Magic constant computed by inspecting the code length of the following assembly language snippet ... */

In the haskell runtime. Followed by ASM encoded in hex. Yeah.. no thanks.

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**Matthew Graybosch** @starbreaker · Jan 31, 2018, 19:10

**Matthew Graybosch** @starbreaker · Jan 31, 2018, 19:10

@joeyh How long did it take for things to go non-Euclidian? :)

**see shy jo** @joeyh · Jan 31, 2018, 19:15

**see shy jo** @joeyh · Jan 31, 2018, 19:15

**see shy jo** @joeyh · Jan 31, 2018, 19:10

**see shy jo** @joeyh · Jan 31, 2018, 19:10

I think that code is vulnerable to Spectre variant 2 though.

**Jordi** @JordiGH@mathstodon.xyz · Jan 31, 2018, 19:16

**Jordi** @JordiGH@mathstodon.xyz · Jan 31, 2018, 19:16

@joeyh ASM encoded in hex is just... machine code, isn't it?

**see shy jo** @joeyh · Jan 31, 2018, 19:20

**see shy jo** @joeyh · Jan 31, 2018, 19:20

@JordiGH
it's more asm encoded as hex plus enough macros to almost be an assembler..

**will (tilde aspect)** @sl2c@tiny.tilde.website · Mar 01, 2018, 03:44

**will (tilde aspect)** @sl2c@tiny.tilde.website · Mar 01, 2018, 03:44

@joeyh jeez, what's that for