text: Simon Burge <email@example.com> writes: > The biggest problems I've seen so far are the "spill register overflow" > errors reported here in the past. Yes. I've never (well not for a *long* time) seen it generate bad code. It did however *fail* to generate code. Unfortunately, the register allocator is probably the most opaque bit of code in the whole compiler. It also relies on heuristics and (it seems to me), that there is no guarantee that even for a machine with lots of registers, that there are not cases where the allocator fails. Also, the interaction between the machine description and the register allocator is not obvious. The plus side is that this is an area which had a lot of work on it (not much by me) leading up to gcc 3 release. As I reported in the past, register allocation failure bugs would not so much come and go as move around from snapshot to snapshot. I'm hopeful that allocator was stable by the time of the actual 3.0 release. > tree here, I'll see if the errors have gone. Note that even with the > old toolchain I see the occasional "spill register overflow" error > compiling some kernel files (an IPSEC one comes to mind, that is not > enabled by a default pc532 GENERIC kernel). If you can send me offending code, I'd appreciate it. It would make my job easier if you can look at the output from make to get the exact failing compile command. Change "-c" to "-E" and add "-o foo.i" (or change the existing "-o foo.o" to "-o foo.i") and send me the foo.i file. Compress it if it is big. If you feel up to it it would also help to eliminate code until you have near the minimum which will demonstrate the failure. I personally find that the quickest way to trim down the code is to work on the .i file. Remove all the blank lines. Eliminate whole functions (or replace them with skeletons) until you have just the function which causes the problem. Check by just running cc1. > I'll be happy to look into ELF and the SA stuff if we have a working > toolchain :-) Ah, but thats why we want ELF, for the toolchain! The best bet is to either build as cross assembler/linker or build using the old (circa NetBSD 1.5) toolchain. I'd personally do the former. The kernel also presumably needs mods to load ELF files, but I am betting that this is almost completely machine independent code. Ian


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Marketing types and legal types who review labels, be well advised to choose words used carefully. In other words, if you believe you own rights in Pretzel Crisps as a trademark, it's not wise to use the number of so-called "Crisps" as the serving size, especially with no trademark notice symbol. Frito-Lay's successful 2014 generic… Continue Reading
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A Steep Climb to Own a One Word Mark?Posted in Articles, Branding, Food, Marketing, Trademarks, Truncation
The grocery aisles are fertile grounds for my keyboard, as you know. And, while I'm generally far more interested in coffee grounds than tea leaves (unless we're speaking of the iced variety or reading between the lines of court decisions), the above shown box of tea bags caught my eye. What initially captured my interest… Continue Reading
KIND Taglines: About Owning Your Ad Copy?Posted in Articles, Branding, Food, Marketing, Mixed Bag of Nuts, Trademarks, USPTO
First things first: Happy 4th of July, Dear Readers! That was a pretty honest, simple, genuine, transparent, straightforward, to the point, not belaboring at all, under any circumstances, my most sincere wishes to our dear readers, agree? Now contrast the original well wishes with the elaborate description of them, the latter being anything but short… Continue Reading
A Missed Step in Branding Fitness Trackers?Posted in Advertising, Almost Advice, Articles, Branding, Genericide, Loss of Rights, Marketing, Technology, Trademarks, USPTO
I've been wearing one of these little guys on my wrist for almost a year now. Love it. The personal awareness it raises for me in the areas of sleep, diet, and activity, has been profound. Can't tell you how many times folks have asked, "Is that one of those fit bits?" "Nope," I sometimes… Continue Reading
This Mac Needs a Knife TooPosted in Advertising, Branding, Food, Marketing, Trademarks, Truncation, USPTO
Louis Armstrong first performed "Mack the Knife" in 1956, a year later McDonald's introduced the Big Mac, and then, Bobby Darin's version of "Mack the Knife" became a chart-topper in 1959. So, these events were all before my time, but I'm left wondering if there was any connection between them, back in the day, or whether they were an unrelated coincidence… Continue Reading
McDonald's Trade Dress? State Farm is There.Posted in Advertising, Branding, Dilution, Famous Marks, Food, Infringement, Marketing, Non-Traditional Trademarks, Sight, Trademarks
Passing by a roadside billboard recently (below is a miniature version I found in the Minneapolis skyway system), my first thought was, wow, McDonald's is getting into the juicy lucy business: Until more focus revealed that State Farm Insurance is the one behind the ad. Look familiar? No doubt burgers and car insurance are totally different lines of business and… Continue Reading
Crushing a Perfectly Good Brand Name?Posted in Advertising, Almost Advice, Branding, Genericide, Loss of Rights, Marketing, Trademarks, USPTO
Remember how important it is to stay on the right side of the suggestive/descriptive line when it comes to making proper use of a brand name? We have cautioned about the danger of "taking a suggestive name, mark, or tag-line, and using it descriptively in a sentence on labels, packaging, ad copy, or the Internet," because… Continue Reading
A Trademark Spinning Out of Control?Posted in Almost Advice, Articles, Branding, Genericide, Loss of Rights, Marketing, Trademarks
With the upcoming 2012 presidential election, this is the time during our American political cycle where spinning is almost a sport — at least an expected activity. Puns intended, as you'll see. Over the last several years, I've heard my wife speak about "spinning classes" at a local health club (mind you, not at the local political party caucuses) — so, a… Continue Reading
Microsoft's Brand Refresh Cements Color Trend?Posted in Branding, Famous Marks, Trademarks
–Dan Kelly, Attorney Over the years, we have documented a number of branding trends, from blue ovals, to the 3D trend, to our AlphaWatch. With its recently announced new logo, Microsoft appears to be bucking all trends. Without further ado, here it is: Did you catch that? I know. Blink and you miss it. Look, I will freely confess my bias: I… Continue Reading
When is a ballpark frank a ball park BRAND frank?Posted in Almost Advice, Articles, Branding, Food, Genericide, Loss of Rights, Marketing, Trademarks, USPTO
Do you suppose the author of this article knows that Ball Park is a federally-registered brand name and trademark, not an unprotectable generic term synonymous with hot dogs and frankfurters? The growing prevalence of lower-case brand styles and visual identity has complicated the answer to this question a bit, I suspect. Nevertheless, we should probably chalk up another example for… Continue Reading
lower case brands, wall of fame or shame?Posted in Advertising, Branding, Famous Marks, Marketing, Trademarks
As promised, some time ago, here is an enormous wall sign from one of the many hallways connected to one of the many shopping areas at The Shoppes at the Palazzo in Las Vegas, showing all these retail brands in simple lower case style. No trademark notice or registration symbols either. . . . Do you suppose the entity responsible… Continue Reading
Stress Relief, Want Some?Posted in Branding, Fair Use, Infringement, Marketing, Mixed Bag of Nuts, Trademarks
What started as a fatherly trip to the mall with my daughter and one of her friends will end with a couple of blog posts, at least. I don't spend a lot of time in malls, so when I do, I'm typically on brand alert. You could probably count on one hand the number of… Continue Reading
Gone Fishing, in Sin CityPosted in Branding, International, Marketing, Trademark Bullying, Trademarks, TTAB, USPTO
Spring break brings my family to Las Vegas this year; when we made the plans, we never anticipated leaving behind better weather in Minneapolis, especially this time of year. Oh, well. At least it isn't slowing down our hiking adventures in the amazing Red Rock Canyon area. Meanwhile, closer to the strip and all the… Continue Reading
Webinar: Hot Marketing Topics with Trademark & Legal ImplicationsPosted in Branding, Genericide, Guest Bloggers, Look-For Ads, Loss of Rights, Marketing, Non-Traditional Trademarks, Product Configurations, Product Packaging, Trademarks
Last week I had the distinct pleasure of participating in a ninety-minute webinar with my good friend, frequent and eloquent guest-blogger on DuetsBlog — Aaron Keller of Capsule — complete with some friendly banter on the following: "Hot Marketing Topics with Trademark and Legal Implications." Minnesota Continuing Legal Education has generously provided a link where the webinar can be viewed in its entirety, here. As you'll… Continue Reading
Mayo Clinic Logo loses lower case visual identityPosted in Branding, Famous Marks, Marketing, Trademarks
We've already written a bit here about the trend toward lower-case branding and visual identity: Although I'd like to invite and actually welcome the far more professional wisdom of our trusted visual identity brethren and other learned branding and marketing types, until then, I'm guessing this trend has at least something to do with wanting to position a… Continue Reading
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The ben of today's post is not one of the many celebrities having the name, a truncated version of any number of other product and service brands, such as Bengay, Ben & Jerry's, Ben Franklin, Benihana, or even dear old Uncle Ben. Today we're talking paint, and this paint brand has at least two things going on here:… Continue Reading
Rapala Taunts a Monster?Posted in Advertising, Branding, Fair Use, Marketing, Trademark Bullying, Trademarks
Happy Mother's Day! So, it's time again to talk a little fishing billboard branding, I guess. We have enjoyed discussing Rapala billboard ads over the last couple of years, the "attracting cats" billboard, the "More hits than Google" billboard, the "Whudjagiddumon" billboard, and now the "Do you believe in monsters?" billboard. Note the upper case "G"… Continue Reading
Think Harder Concrete Campaign Targets Soft CompetitionPosted in Advertising, Domain Names, Marketing
–Dan Kelly, Attorney But for seeing a billboard last week like the banner below, it would never have occurred to me that cement producers really needed to advertise, but the Portland Cement Association has impeccable timing, as it is pothole season in Minnesota, and billboards like this are up all around the pothole-ridden Twin Cities. … Continue Reading

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Bugatti exhibited in Geneva two special versions of the Veyron Grand Sport model, but kept the surprise for a private event, held near the salon, but far from the curious eyes of the public.
Subsidiary Volkswagen unveiled a new version of the 16C Galibier model, the brother of the four seat Veyron. The event revealed a Galibier painted black, much more sober than the original one, bicolor.
The luxury sedan will adopt the same unit with 16-cylinder, 8 liter and 4 turbochargers, present on Veyron. In this situation, however, the giant engine will offer between 800 and 1,000 horsepower.
Although it wasn't allowed to understand when we will be able to see the street model with four doors, Bugatti underlined that the public's response and especially the customers was very positive. It is possible that the Galibier model to go into production immediately after Veyron will end its life cycle.
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December 23, 2008
It's been more than two years since my article about Reginald A. Fessenden and what may have been the world's first broadcast appeared in Radio World.Readers will recall that in the last months of his life, Fessenden claimed to have sent out a short program of speech and music on Christmas Eve, 1906, with reception reports being received from as far away as Norfolk, Va., nearly 500 miles away.He also claimed that a similar broadcast conducted a week later drew response from the West Indies, more than 1,500 miles from his Brant Rock, Mass. laboratory.This was a great account and one I had enjoyed telling and retelling for some 40 years. However, even after much investigation, only a single document could be found to substantiate Fessenden's claim.This was a letter dated Jan. 29, 1932 from Fessenden to Sam Kintner, a Westinghouse vice president. It apparently was written in response to an inquiry from Kintner about Fessenden's involvement in broadcasting-related activities.I left my 2006 article "open ended," hoping that someone might come forward with some artifact that would bolster Fessenden's claim and settle the matter, especially as Fessenden had declared that many heard the transmissions and that proof existed in the form of multiple ships' logs (and supposedly the letters he received from ear witnesses).While my article generated a lot of response, no one has yet come forward with proof positive of the event. To the contrary, additional evidence surfaced that would tend to disprove the Christmas Eve story. Some of it even offers a clue at to what might have really happened.
"From the search just described, while not an exhaustive search, it has been concluded that neither the Christmas Eve broadcast nor the New Year's Eve broadcast of 1906 was noted in newspapers, magazines or in scientific papers on wireless telegraphy. Nor did Dr. [sic] Fessenden refer to the broadcasts in any of his writings during that period."
"While the conclusion has been reached that documentary proof is not possible, there is a possibility of personal records in 'unknown' libraries or archives."
"…I am afraid that I cannot confirm the information you are seeking re the Fessenden experiments with radiotelephony. I was discharged from the US Navy at Provincetown on October 12, 1906 and had returned to my old home town of Austin, Texas. I was working for the DeForest Wireless Telegraph Company of Texas at San Antonio during the Christmas Season of 1906. I did not hear BO - Brant Rock transmit radio telephone signals at any time. However, I heard that station sending the letter D on many occasions and also heard it send test messages many times."
"I was in Chicago around Christmas reporting on the wireless activities going on there for Fessenden, so I only know of the telephonic tests [this is a reference to the Dec. 21 Brant Rock radiotelephony demonstration] by what I was told upon my return to Washington." [Fessenden's company, NESCO, had an operation there.]
"Dear Clark — With reference to your letter of January 5th, I want you to know that I immediately wrote to Fessenden, but as yet have not received an answer."
"Dear George — I was in Brant Rock on Dec. 23d (or perhaps 22d or 24th) I think the 23d for a few hours. Went for a friendly visit with Prof. Fessenden. On my way from Scotland to Pittsburgh. He showed me the high freq. alternator. At this time cannot add anything to info that you now have. Will write later."
"It was stated by Prof. Fessenden, and seemed probable to me, that the present transmitter (microphone) only varied about 5% of the total radiated energy."
"The alternator, altho [sic] operating at 50,000 cycles, was designed for 100,000. At this frequency [100,000 Hz], the radiation from the antenna, other factors remaining the same, is greatly increased. As the radiation increases with the fourth power of the frequency, this doubling of periodicity would increase the radiation sixteen-fold, and, as the range varies with the square root of the radiation intensity, the distance of communication would be increased four times. This would mean about 40 miles, with the present equipment."
"Probably with the apparatus I saw in operation worked to its maximum efficiency, a range of about 100 miles might be reached, preserving commercial transmission."
"We managed to patch up one armature out of the different armatures sent us and have been using it to telephone from here to Plymouth. We get very good results and we have also completed a telephone relay which works very satisfactory [sic] we expect to make some tests shortly in telephoning from here to New York, part of the way by wireless and part by wire.The present range of 50,000 cycles seems to be about fifty miles. If we can raise this frequency to 100,000 cycles the range will be about 200 miles."
"It is well known, however, that in 1906, Fessenden gave numerous practical demonstrations of radio-telephony between his experimental stations at Brant Rock and Plymouth, Massachusetts, and that in 1907 he increased his range from this distance of about twelve miles to such an extent that Brant Rock was able to communicate with New York, nearly two hundred miles away, and Washington, about five hundred miles."
"You may be interested to know that I am now fixing up apparatus for telephoning between Boston and Washington, a distance of 400 miles."
"If you mean by broadcasting the transmission of speech, music and signing to other stations of the same ownership as the transmitter, then the [Dec. 21] program given to Dr. Kennelly, Prof. Elihu Thompson, the engineers of the Western Electric and A.T. &T. and other companies … would be a broadcast, as indeed would be the exhibitions of wireless telephony between Washington and Annapolis in 1903, and 1905."If, however, you do not call this a broadcast, then the program sent out Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, 1906 would be the first broadcast."
"Telephony is admirably adapted for transmitting news, stock quotations, music, race reports, etc. simultaneously over a city, on account of the fact that no wires are needed and a single apparatus can distribute to ten thousand subscribers as easily as to a few. It is proposed to erect stations for this purpose in the large cities here and abroad."
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