Archive for May, 2008

Difference between static functions and static variables in C

1Milinda28th May 2008c programming

Static Functions Static functions are functions that are only visible to functions in the same file and they are not callable from outside. More »

memcpy vs memmove

0Milinda23rd May 2008c programming

These are some ideas from people who replied to this discussion. Rishi: Its safer to use memmove if you are not sure about More »

GCC 4.3 changes caused build break when use -Wall and -Werror together

1Milinda23rd May 2008c programming, linux tips

As they have mentioned in this document, there can be errors in code that work well with previous versions of GCC. They have More »

Beautiful Code – Gift from Google

1Milinda22nd May 2008Uncategorized

Today I received Beautiful Code book published by O’Reilly as surprise gift for Google Summer of Code 2008. I didn’t have much time More »

Fixing “macro `AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2′ not found in library” in Ubuntu

7Milinda22nd May 2008linux tips

When I tried to install wallpaperzapper in Ubuntu from the source, I got error macro ‘AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2′ not found in library. This link contain More »

Using ‘find’ command in Linux

0Milinda21st May 2008linux tips

The find command allows the Linux users to process a set of files and/or directories in a file subtree.Users can specify where to More »