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Re:Actually Portable Executables by fctorial on Sunday February 28, 2021 @07:25AM (#26292901)
Another reason is that it requires fairly thorough knowledge of 7 different programming environments. Most people don't understand 1.
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Re:Actually Portable Executables by jart on Sunday February 28, 2021 @08:03AM (#26293128)
The only programming environment I used to build this was Emacs on Linux. The rest was simply researching the magic numbers needed to use the binary interface of each system. I figured life's too short to be pulling my hair out with MSVC/Xcode warnings.
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Re:Actually Portable Executables by fctorial on Sunday February 28, 2021 @12:51PM (#26295250)
s/programming environments/systems/
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