"Stolen" SCO Linux Code Snippets Leaked

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 19, 2003 @03:43AM from the we-gotta-figure-this-one-out dept.

stere0 writes "An article (in German) published on the German IT news site Heise includes two pictures (1, 2) of the "stolen" source code SCO claims to be theirs. Part of the first screenshot has been scrambled, the font has probably just been changed to Symbol; can anybody decipher it? I searched for the code snippets on Google. The code does indeed come from the kernel; the photographs show what seems to be lines 88-102 and 109-123 of /arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c from the 2.4 kernel tree. " Update: 08/19 16:39 GMT by M : LWN has a nice piece tracing the origins of the disputed code, and showing that SCO is simply lying.

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Lunis by hipbase · 2003-08-19 03:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Is Lunis guilty of CO infringements?
Re:oh no! by greed · 2003-08-19 06:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

register variables may not have their address taken, which does give the compiler a hint that can improve optimization. It can also then diagnose a later programmer changing the routine to take the address of that variable; once the address is taken of a variable, several easy optimizations can't be done. (Most of which involve keeping the value in a... register.)