Quite a while ago, I’ve integrated my exceptions work into a fork of GCC. At that point, I was already modifying GCC to suppress the libunwind symbols, so putting all of my code into GCC was a no brainer. Moreover, it isn’t actually that hard to build GCC. Editing GCC GCC is built via the autoconf build system. Autoconf is a collection of scripts that is somewhat like CMake, but written entirely in shell script and is intended to be portable for any system that runs shell scripts and has a C compiler....

For the past couple months, I’ve been trying to get exceptions to work on AVR as a hobby project. After several months of work, I’ve done it. Exceptions work, you can just include <vector> and it just works. How to use it Currently I put prebuilt toolchains on github. My changes are currently a bunch of patches to gcc 13.2.0, binutils, and a few others. What I actually did I’ve reimplemented libunwind, the personality function, and also cfi macros by replacing them with my own stuff....

I was looking at I2C code, and noted that there was an awful lot of manual bit manipulation. Unfortunately the native solution in c++, bitfields, are non-portable and for that reason is discouraged in code bases. For that reason, I have written a library called bitstructs, which aims to do what bitfields do but portably. What are bitfields Bitfields are a bit of an obscure feature in C++, aimed at embedded developers....

As is tradition, I’ve hosted the blog manually using AWS. Last time I created configured an Apache server manually. However, as I grew more knowledgeable about web development, I realized that this was a woefully out-dated solution. So here’s my retelling of how I created this blog. Hugo To begin with, I began by using Hugo as my static website generator. I’ve had enough experience with it that using it was relatively painless....

At this point, this is my third time writing a blog, and the first since I have become an adult. Since I now have a semi-stable source of income, I can actually rent a domain name and server resources with confidence that I can pay for it in the future. In any case, I’ll probably post stuff about personal projects I’ve done. First I should put some of my more recent projects though....