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Sunday, January 02, 2005 5:27 PM

Secure CRT

One of the cool new things we are doing in the security push is the conversion of all uses of potentially unsafe CRT (C Runtime) functions to their new, safe counterparts. When we think of unsafe CRT functions, we usually think of string manipulation
Posted by michaljc | 0 Comments
Saturday, October 23, 2004 4:05 PM

Open Source Courses for .NET

Open source courses based on .NET are a great resource both for creating courses at other universities and for people who simply want to use the materials to learn something on their own about either .NET in general or Rotor. I know of two such courses
Posted by michaljc | 4 Comments
Monday, July 19, 2004 6:21 PM

Rotor benchmarks

To date there has been no standard set of benchmarks that do something meaningful, run on Rotor and execute long enough to enable performance measurements. Standard benchmarks are very important for publishing research results because they make easier
Posted by michaljc | 5 Comments
Friday, May 28, 2004 6:51 PM

IVNET'05

IVNET’05 (Conference of Innovative Views of .NET Technologies) is another conference related to CLI. Its scope is actually much larger but the CFP lists a few areas relevant to my Rotor blog. The two most obvious ones are programming languages and
Posted by michaljc | 2 Comments
Friday, May 28, 2004 3:50 PM

Slides from MSR Academic Days in Portugal

I returned yesterday from the MSR Academic Days . These events were quite interesting. Organizers of the event in Portugal made the slides used for presentations available on-line . Slides for my Rotor presentations are there . In addition to Rotor, the
Posted by michaljc | 4 Comments
Tuesday, May 18, 2004 7:13 AM

Rotor RFP2 recipients

As mentioned earlier , we have the final list of researchers awarded grants for proposed work related to Rotor. The list is now public . Check it out: there are many very exciting projects there.
Posted by michaljc | 6 Comments
Friday, May 14, 2004 7:38 PM

A servicing update of Rotor

Jan has just announced that he created a project with the modifications needed to build and run Rotor on versions of MacOS, FreeBSD and Windows that were released since Rotor was shipped. This servicing project is available at http://servicing.sscli.net
Posted by michaljc | 0 Comments
Tuesday, May 11, 2004 6:29 PM

Rotor talks at MSR Academic Days in May

I will be giving talks about Rotor next week in Vilamoura in Portugal and the week after that in Barcelona in Spain . If you are interested in Rotor and will be around there, let me know even if you will not attend these events. _uacct = "UA-238213-3";
Posted by michaljc | 8 Comments
Monday, May 10, 2004 7:36 PM

Rotor BOF notes

Last Thursday I went to the Birds-Of-A-Feather session about Rotor at the Virtual Machine (VM'04) conference . There were over a dozen attendees. Most people haven't done much work with Rotor yet and they were there out of curiosity. I managed to write
Posted by michaljc | 4 Comments
Sunday, May 02, 2004 10:34 PM

Rotor BOF at the VM'04 conference in San Jose

I wanted to remind you about the Birds-of-a-Feather session devoted to Rotor at the VM'04 conference this week. The BOF is scheduled for Thursday, May 6, 7:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m. You can find a description at http://www.usenix.org/events/vm04/bofs.html
Posted by michaljc | 5 Comments
Wednesday, April 14, 2004 10:02 PM

CLR loader and fusion

One of the interesting features of CLR is the ability to control which version of a given assembly is used by an application. This mechanism is quite powerful and I thought I would create a concrete simple example to illustrate the basic concepts. My
Posted by michaljc | 5 Comments
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Thursday, March 04, 2004 7:38 PM

Annotations for Rotor source files (9) - clr/src/inc

This is the last post giving brief summaries of .h files in the clr/src/inc directory of the Rotor distribution. As usually whenever the file contains a good summary in a comment, I simply quote the comment here, otherwise I write new notes to capture
Posted by michaljc | 1 Comments
Tuesday, February 24, 2004 6:40 PM

Annotations for Rotor source files (8) - clr/src/inc

palclr.h Comment: // Various macros and constants that are necessary to make the CLR portable. palstartup.h Comment: // An implementation of startup code for Rotor's Unix PAL. This file should // be included by any file in a PAL application that defines
Posted by michaljc | 1 Comments
Wednesday, February 18, 2004 6:30 PM

Annotations for Rotor source files (7) - clr/src/inc

jitperf.h Comment: // Internal interface for gathering JIT perfmormance stats. These stats are // logged (or displayed) in two ways. If PERF_COUNTERS are enabled the // perfmon etc. would display the jit stats. If ENABLE_PERF_LOG is enabled // and PERF_OUTPUT
Posted by michaljc | 4 Comments
Saturday, February 14, 2004 6:57 PM

Annotations for Rotor source files (6) - clr/src/inc

fuspriv.h (not in tarball) Like other *.idl files, it is copied from palrt/idl Unlike other files generated from idl, this one doesn't have a corresponding idl file anywhere in the tarball. gchost.h (not in tarball) Comment: * Common Language Runtime
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