alt Hacker News> And if you've ever dug into the guts of glibc's loader it's 40 years of unreadable cruft.
You meant: it's 40 years of debugged and hardened run-everywhere never-fails code, I suppose.
> And if you've ever dug into the guts of glibc's loader it's 40 years of unreadable cruft.
You meant: it's 40 years of debugged and hardened run-everywhere never-fails code, I suppose.
No, I meant 40 years of unreadable cruft. It's not hard to write a correct loader. It's very hard to understand glibc's implementation.