GCC Compiler Extensions Used in Linux Kernel
GCC and Linux are a great pair. Although they are independent pieces of software, Linux is totally dependent on GCC to enable it More »
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GCC and Linux are a great pair. Although they are independent pieces of software, Linux is totally dependent on GCC to enable it More »
inotify is a Linux kernel subsystem which monitors Linux file system operations, such as read, write, create and delete. It was included in More »
This weekend I am doing simple project to display twitter time line on ‘Conky’ widget. For that first I need to write a More »
I got very positive response for my previous post that published test results of Recursion algorithm efficiency testing. Bluestorm and Alex has responsed More »
Because of the responses I got from readers for previous post ‘Efficiency of Algorithms: Recursive vs Non-Recursive’, I did some test using RDTSC More »
Static Functions Static functions are functions that are only visible to functions in the same file and they are not callable from outside. More »
These are some ideas from people who replied to this discussion. Rishi: Its safer to use memmove if you are not sure about More »
As they have mentioned in this document, there can be errors in code that work well with previous versions of GCC. They have More »