Tag Archives: C++ and C

Michael Loukides Andy Oram Issue #29, September 1996 It’s worth making friends with a good C debugger. There are many reasons you might need a debugger—the most obvious being that you’re a programmer and you’ve written an application that doesn’t work right. Beyond this, Linux depends heavily both on sharing source code and on porting code from other Unix systems. ...

Michael K. Johnson Issue #5, September 1994 For several good reasons, the Linux standard library implements standard I/O (stdio) in a somewhat strange way. Unfortunately, many programs make unwarranted assumptions about how stdio is implemented that cause the programs not to compile properly under Linux. I have alluded to this problem before in this column; this month I will explain ...