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2020-11-18 17:58:39 × britva quits (~britva@2a02:aa13:7240:2980:7da5:a1a0:c038:90b4) (Quit: This computer has gone to sleep)
2020-11-18 17:58:40 <p0a> is there heap allocation in firmware?
2020-11-18 17:58:42 <texasmynsted> s/the/then/
2020-11-18 17:58:43 <maerwald> that's not much to throw around "safe"
2020-11-18 17:58:51 <p0a> I have never programmed anything like firmware, I don't even know what it is
2020-11-18 17:58:52 <merijn> maerwald: Define "safe"
2020-11-18 17:59:00 <srk> p0a: yup, ivory-tower uses heap for FreeRTOS tasks
2020-11-18 17:59:06 <merijn> maerwald: Definitely safer than hand-written C
2020-11-18 17:59:09 <maerwald> merijn: formally verified at least
2020-11-18 17:59:11 <merijn> maerwald: Sure, that's not a high bar
2020-11-18 17:59:27 <merijn> maerwald: It plugs into formal verification tools as possible backends, that's one of the points/goals :p
2020-11-18 17:59:39 <texasmynsted> Example: I have written firmware to control the hardware in a water meter and let the water meter communicate over radio.
2020-11-18 17:59:46 howdoi joins (uid224@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-xcriusnvhpaknzlz)
2020-11-18 17:59:51 <merijn> maerwald: Per the Ivory webpage: "The C language backend supports rendering Ivory assertions for static checking with the CBMC model checker. The SMACCMPilot project build system includes integration for CBMC verification of the SMACCMPilot source code."
2020-11-18 17:59:55 <merijn> We also provide our own symbolic simulator for verifying Ivory assertions using CVC4.
2020-11-18 18:00:09 <texasmynsted> I have written code for the head unit in automobiles
2020-11-18 18:00:18 <maerwald> ok, you're all hired :p
2020-11-18 18:00:18 <p0a> srk: I had no idea how 'large' firmware can be. I didn't know OSes run on them. I know very little about it :P
2020-11-18 18:00:27 <texasmynsted> That is what I mean by firmware
2020-11-18 18:00:37 Klobbinger joins (543b08ef@dslb-084-059-008-239.084.059.pools.vodafone-ip.de)
2020-11-18 18:00:42 × motherfsck quits (~motherfsc@unaffiliated/motherfsck) (Remote host closed the connection)
2020-11-18 18:00:51 <merijn> texasmynsted: Iirc Ivory was originally developed for crypto/firmware applications for DARPA/US Dept of Defense
2020-11-18 18:01:24 <merijn> texasmynsted: So it's *very* much intended for stuff like "car firmware"
2020-11-18 18:01:31 <texasmynsted> maerwald: Excellent. What are we building?
2020-11-18 18:01:41 × Klobbinger quits (543b08ef@dslb-084-059-008-239.084.059.pools.vodafone-ip.de) (Remote host closed the connection)
2020-11-18 18:01:42 <maerwald> a stupid backend :D
2020-11-18 18:01:50 crdrost joins (~crdrost@c-98-207-102-156.hsd1.ca.comcast.net)
2020-11-18 18:01:50 <p0a> nice!
2020-11-18 18:01:53 <merijn> Oh, that's easy
2020-11-18 18:01:57 <merijn> I've build tons of those
2020-11-18 18:02:18 <srk> p0a: depends, I'm typically using STM32 MCUs ranging from 8kb to 512kb SRAM (64kb - 1/2Mb flash)
2020-11-18 18:02:26 <texasmynsted> maerwald: More specifically please. That pretty much describes everything.]
2020-11-18 18:02:45 motherfsck joins (~motherfsc@unaffiliated/motherfsck)
2020-11-18 18:02:47 <maerwald> I dunno... is there anything other than backends out there?
2020-11-18 18:02:47 vicfred joins (~vicfred@unaffiliated/vicfred)
2020-11-18 18:02:54 <merijn> p0a: It depends on your chip too
2020-11-18 18:03:12 <monochrom> merijn: Do you happen to know why they chose the name Ivory? Is it about "yes this is from the ivory power, bite me"? :)
2020-11-18 18:03:15 <merijn> p0a: Embedded chips powerful enough to run regular linux or pretty cheap
2020-11-18 18:03:21 <merijn> monochrom: Probably?
2020-11-18 18:03:27 <srk> it's explained in one of the papers
2020-11-18 18:03:43 <merijn> monochrom: Considering there's an associated language mentioned on their website called "tower"...
2020-11-18 18:03:44 <srk> something like 'to bring embedded development down from ivory tower'
2020-11-18 18:03:52 <monochrom> hahaha neat
2020-11-18 18:03:58 Klobbinger joins (543b08ef@dslb-084-059-008-239.084.059.pools.vodafone-ip.de)
2020-11-18 18:04:01 brisbin joins (~patrick@pool-173-49-158-4.phlapa.fios.verizon.net)
2020-11-18 18:04:03 britva joins (~britva@31-10-157-156.cgn.dynamic.upc.ch)
2020-11-18 18:04:04 <monochrom> thanks merijn and srk
2020-11-18 18:04:25 × nut quits (~user@roc37-h01-176-170-197-243.dsl.sta.abo.bbox.fr) (Ping timeout: 240 seconds)
2020-11-18 18:04:48 <merijn> monochrom: That's why the clash people had to figure out something else to name clash ;)
2020-11-18 18:04:58 <merijn> (statement not actually based in facts)
2020-11-18 18:05:08 <monochrom> hahahahaha name clash
2020-11-18 18:05:55 <texasmynsted> Hmm. I would love to see people describe their experience with various commodity chips.
2020-11-18 18:06:17 <merijn> I'm just sad Habit died
2020-11-18 18:06:40 <monochrom> In other news, today I showed my students the fibonacci joke "This Fibonacci joke is as bad as the last two you heard combined." and the originating tweet URL https://twitter.com/sigfpe/status/776420034419658752
2020-11-18 18:06:46 × jakob_ quits (~textual@p200300f49f1622000c6d85cd02bcc449.dip0.t-ipconnect.de) (Quit: My Laptop has gone to sleep. ZZZzzz…)
2020-11-18 18:08:17 <merijn> heh, so according to reddit Haskell job openings it's "hard to find people with 5+ years experience", so clearly I need to start demanding rockstar salary by now >.>
2020-11-18 18:09:04 <Ariakenom> texasmynsted: A colleague had an awesome patch for an avr8. It just rearranged members in a struct.
2020-11-18 18:09:38 <texasmynsted> merijn: You should.
2020-11-18 18:10:01 <Ariakenom> the compiled code was smaller because the members were in nicer locations. he find out where to place them by trying all of them in a script
2020-11-18 18:10:12 <texasmynsted> Where do you work?
2020-11-18 18:10:16 × cosimone quits (~cosimone@2001:b07:ae5:db26:d849:743b:370b:b3cd) (Quit: cosimone)
2020-11-18 18:10:41 <Ariakenom> we needed that because we were running out of flash storage on them
2020-11-18 18:10:44 <merijn> texasmynsted: Well currently I don't write Haskell to begin with, or rather, at least not officially :p
2020-11-18 18:10:52 <texasmynsted> What?
2020-11-18 18:10:55 <texasmynsted> That is crazy
2020-11-18 18:11:01 × britva quits (~britva@31-10-157-156.cgn.dynamic.upc.ch) (Quit: This computer has gone to sleep)
2020-11-18 18:11:03 <texasmynsted> What do you write?
2020-11-18 18:11:37 <maerwald> IRC
2020-11-18 18:11:42 <texasmynsted> So like many of us Haskell is your guilty pleasure?
2020-11-18 18:11:42 <maerwald> look at his IRC stats
2020-11-18 18:11:44 <maerwald> :p
2020-11-18 18:11:45 <merijn> maerwald: shush
2020-11-18 18:11:46 <texasmynsted> LOLOL
2020-11-18 18:11:47 conal joins (~conal@64.71.133.70)
2020-11-18 18:11:51 <p0a> Ariakenom: can't you just pack a struct?
2020-11-18 18:12:04 <merijn> maerwald: dminuoso is still in first because (thank god) Chris Done's ircbrowse stats got lost
2020-11-18 18:12:23 tomsmeding . o O ( it will grow over time )
2020-11-18 18:12:28 <texasmynsted> I think you could argue you are promoting your haskell mentoring
2020-11-18 18:12:39 <Ariakenom> p0a: it wasnt to reduce memory. it was to reduce code size :D
2020-11-18 18:13:04 <merijn> texasmynsted: Currently C, C++, Fortran90, Python, within the organisation probably "basically everything besides, like, PHP and perl" :p
2020-11-18 18:13:10 <texasmynsted> His handle must not be chrisdone
2020-11-18 18:13:34 <texasmynsted> Fortran90. Interesting.
2020-11-18 18:13:37 britva joins (~britva@2a02:aa13:7240:2980:7da5:a1a0:c038:90b4)
2020-11-18 18:13:50 <merijn> texasmynsted: That's for the lucky people not dealing with Fortran77 :p
2020-11-18 18:14:11 <p0a> Ariakenom: I'm confused, but I believe you :)
2020-11-18 18:14:20 <texasmynsted> I am trying to determine where you work where Fortran90 would be used. . .
2020-11-18 18:14:32 <merijn> texasmynsted: Oh, I still write Haskell stuff at work, because no one's around to tell me no :p
2020-11-18 18:16:32 valdyn joins (~valdyn@host-88-217-143-53.customer.m-online.net)
2020-11-18 18:16:35 <texasmynsted> Well it sound interesting
2020-11-18 18:18:37 <texasmynsted> I like how some people say they use Haskell for "prototyping"
2020-11-18 18:19:07 × knupfer quits (~Thunderbi@200116b8244bd600859a1b799407ebc4.dip.versatel-1u1.de) (Ping timeout: 260 seconds)
2020-11-18 18:20:04 <dolio> Haskell is too mainstream for prototyping.
2020-11-18 18:20:12 <dolio> Prototype your Haskell stuff in Agda.
2020-11-18 18:20:33 <texasmynsted> or Idris
2020-11-18 18:20:57 <dolio> Yeah. Although if you prototype in Idris you might find you can just use the prototype. :þ
2020-11-18 18:21:35 <texasmynsted> yes. That is the point. A Haskell prototype likely works better and is more maintainable than the target language
2020-11-18 18:21:55 jedai42 joins (~jedai@lfbn-dij-1-708-251.w90-100.abo.wanadoo.fr)
2020-11-18 18:22:00 <monochrom> Programmers seldom grow out of their prototypes.
2020-11-18 18:22:09 <merijn> Prototype in Haskell, because we all know prototypes become production and never stop, so now they gotta hire more haskellers to support it
2020-11-18 18:22:14 <merijn> Boom. Haskell shop

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