kirha

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by kirha 2y ago
feel free to post link here
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by kirha 2y ago
Operating system is complex project that consists of many elements. Kernel is one of them and it is written in C and assembler. What you write is truth but it doesn't apply to kernel.
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by kirha 2y ago
It is still written in C.
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by kirha 2y ago
I think there are more reasons. Maybe let's move this discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40730327 I don't want to make this thread shit-post.
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ReactOS – Legal or Not?
6 points by kirha 2y ago|8 comments
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by kirha 2y ago
Actually GCC for Windows target is like pain in the ass. Look for how many problems ReactOS had with it. Also this would need SEH to be implemented. Clang gives that out of the box.
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by kirha 2y ago
Git history shows 2 years of development.
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by kirha 2y ago
ReactOS takes from Wine, but Wine does not want to take from ReactOS any longer.
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by kirha 2y ago
That's actually true. While, LLVM/Clang is better compiler, I definitely would expect some example here.
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by kirha 2y ago
I don't know but similar can be found on https://wiki.winehq.org/Clean_Room_Guidelines "Don't look at ReactOS code either (not even header files). A lot of it was reverse-engineered using methods that are not
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by kirha 2y ago
I think they just live in EU. They also mention some EU directives related to reverse engineering.
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by kirha 2y ago
From FAQ: Why don’t you help ReactOS? ExectOS goals are very different from ReactOS, and contrast the project’s core philosophy as being quite on different paths. While ReactOS aims to replicate Windows® NT™, ExectOS is a completely new Ope