Beyond the x86_64: developing for embedded systems without development boards Introduction In embedded software development, one of the first decisions made even before application development
TL;DR This post shows that modern optimizing C compilers assume that the source code they are compiling respects memory alignment constraints, even if the target
The C standard makes it undefined to pass anything other than a pointer to a null-terminated string as second argument to printf(“%s”,. However, most libcs
My interest was piqued by a question on the questions-and-answers site Quora (the irritating one that tries to get you to register by limiting the
The libksba library, used by GnuPG, provides functions for parsing X.509 cryptographic certificates. I was testing libksba with TIS Interpreter a little over a year
My colleagues and I have written this article. I feel we are starting to get a good grasp of what “strict aliasing” is, but who
zlib is a venerable multi-purpose compression library, first released in May 1995. The first time I installed GNU/Linux was in late 1995, so to me
Do you remember the TV show The Invaders? It was enormously popular in France, much more than in the US where it originated. It tells
The C programming language does not hide from you how the values you manipulate are represented. One consequence is that when padding happens, its presence
One well-documented way in which a program may break in presence of objects of more than PTRDIFF_MAX bytes is by doing a pointer subtraction that
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