Tonight I implemented #javascript Promises in #lua. Conclusion: Lua is dumb but I managed it!

Bugfixing and testing tomorrow 'cause it's late and this took longer than expected.

https://github.com/sbrl/Minetest-WorldEditAdditions/blob/1300e9cc1dae89d60434389b98f3406d8938b626/promise.lua

#horriblehack #opensource #programming

Turns out is an upstream #GCC #bug that hasn't been fixed despite being reported in 2012. Windows 64bit #stack is aligned to 16 bytes only, and some part of GCC generates vector move instructions that require 32 bytes. Problem doesn't occur on Linux as stack can be re-aligned there, some Windows-specific stuff I don't understand means that that isn't possible there.

Currently rebuilding gcc-mingw-w64 Debian package with an #HorribleHack to replace all #aligned #vector #move to #unaligned vector move in the i386+mmx+sse machine descriptions.