The Design and Implementation of laffer1

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/12/1342258&from=rss

Apple purchased CUPS, the standard in UNIX/Linux printing technologies.  They switched to it years ago.  (10.2 i think)  There are many theories why they bought CUPS including preventing a license change to GPLv3.  The catch is that I believe SAMBA has already gone GPLv3 so Apple will still have to include GPLv3 code in 10.5 anyway.  Well I guess they could stop supporting windows networking, but that would kill their business and education sales.

They could close source CUPS which would be terrible for open source projects.

http://llvm.org/demo/index.cgi

LLVM is a backend for a compiler suite.  Apple has been working on this project for some time along with many others.  The goal is to get rid of gcc eventually.  This could be another issue for the MBSD project.

I decided to test this. 

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    printf("hello world ");
    return 0;
}

result:

; ModuleID = '/tmp/webcompile/_16373_0.bc'
target datalayout = "e-p:32:32:32-i1:8:8-i8:8:8-i16:16:16-i32:32:32-i64:32:64-f32:32:32-f64:32:64-v64:64:64-v128:128:128-a0:0:64"
target triple = "i686-pc-linux-gnu"
@.str = internal constant [12 x i8] c"hello world0"		; <[12 x i8]*> [#uses=1]

define i32 @main() {
entry:
	%tmp2 = tail call i32 @puts( i8* getelementptr ([12 x i8]* @.str, i32 0, i32 0) )		; <i32> [#uses=0]
	ret i32 0
}

Note that it turned it into a puts call!  

declare i32 @puts(i8*)

This product made me laugh today. The flavor I bought is "vegan" however on the back it says it was processed on equipment used for eggs and dairy! I think they need to look up the definition of vegan. Luckily I'm a lacto ovo vegetarian so it's not a big deal to me. I can see some vegan getting really pissed though.