BSDCan2019 - 1.8
BSDCan 2019
The Technical BSD Conference
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Maya Rashish |
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| Day | Talks #2 - 18 May - 2019-05-18 |
| Room | DMS 1120 |
| Start time | 16:00 |
| Duration | 01:00 |
| Info | |
| ID | 1080 |
| Event type | Lecture |
| Track | Hacking |
| Language used for presentation | English |
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Porting Go to netbsd/arm64
Starting out with no knowledge in Go or ARM64, how do you begin porting a language? Go might be one of the hardest languages to port.
Having done that, I came back to tell the tale of how.
- Unusual characteristics of Go
- Rules to write the 400 lines of assembly code necessary for a port
- Debugging in the absence of a functional debugger
The talk will describe how to start on such a large project, how to find your way around a large unfamiliar codebase, what's a calling convention, how to debug mistakes in your Go port, and some notes about why Go chose to make such strange choices.