The Spoony Blog

I was reading through the Mac OS X Internals book, and came across this interesting nugget in chapter 7. In OS X 10.4, a kernel extension maps an anti-piracy message into the 256 bytes of virtual address space of every running process at address 0xFFFF1600, which you can see for yourself by compiling and running […]

Objective-C is an interesting programming language. Unlike C++, it’s a strict superset of C — every valid C program is a valid Objective-C program. While most C programs are valid C++ programs, there are certain incompatibilities such as the introduction of new keywords that make the relationship not strict. One of the many features that […]