A Road Less Taken

This week I continued to look into tree dump files in the effort to find out the data passed to the plugin event. Honestly as I have posted before, information on analysing dump files are really hard to find online. Most of the information available are about the basic information Read more…

Analysing Dump Files

Data Flow Analysis This week I continued in my search for reference in dump files analysis. In the beginning, I found something about Data Flow Analysis and when I look inside the content, it looks like exactly like Mathematics, probability all over again. There are a lot of symbols and Read more…

Starting FreeRTOS

This week I trying to port another RTOS to our microprocessor. The purpose to learn this OS because it usually run preemptive operation in event scheduler. Same as Contiki, FreeRTOS also a RTOS design for small and memory constraint processor. Currently, FreeRTOS had successfully ported to plenty of microprocessor which consist products of Altera, Read more…

Almost there..

This week a new millstone for the project release has been created. So we were working on closing our outstanding issues and completing the rest of the left features. Changing the Object-List File Format: Have you experienced the feeling that usually comes to a little kid who likes playing by Read more…

Exploring the Dump Files

This week I continued in my attempt to analyse the dump files produced last week. I happened to read online that the dump files are written in pseudo-C syntax, although pseudocode is supposed to be understood more easily, however it still does not make much sense to me. The dump Read more…

Calling the Callbacks

This week I have tested all the plugin callbacks available in GCC The plugins list are defined by plugin.def in GCC. The plugin is initiated by plugin_init function, then the plugin is called through register_callback function. For each plugin, a register_callback is required, then the plugin function will be called and Read more…

JSON v XML

There are a whole bunch of JSON v XML posts out there. So, I will not rehash the various arguments on which is better. However, we needed to select a file format to store configuration information. To make things convenient, we decided to use the Boost::Property_Tree library. So, this is Read more…