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Revision as of 09:22, 19 February 2016
Lab 7
1. Select one of the following open source packages which is not claimed by another person in the class. Put your name beside it in (parenthesis) to claim it.
- amule
- ardour
- avidemux
- blender
- bunny
- busybox
- chicken
- cln
- coq
- cxxtools
- faad2
- fawkes
- filezilla
- gauche
- gmime
- gnash
- gridengine
- groonga
- hoard
- iaxclient
- k9copy
- lame
- libfame
- libgcroots
- libmad
- libmlx4
- lightsparc
- mediatomb
- mjpegtools
- mlt
- mosh
- mpich2
- ocaml-zarith
- openblas
- opencore-amr
- openser
- par2cmdline
- picprog
- qlandkartegt
- sooperlooper
- traverso
2. Find the assembler in that software, and determine:
- How much assembley-language code is present
- Which platform(s) it is used on
- Why it is there (what it does)
- What happens on other platforms
- Your opinion of the value of the assembler code VS the loss of portability/increase in complexity of the code.
3. Blog your results in detail.