• ProgrammingTipsAndTricks

Programming Tips and Tricks

• SizeofSizeof - using sizeof and printf

• pointeraliasing

• externinline

• getreg

• HalfBakedPythonMutex - a mutex type class for use with python

• SharedLibraries --- another page of links with information about shared libraries

• ChangeDefLinkerScript -- patches to make ld look in /usr/lib/ldscripts/ before its internal linker script

• AnonymousMmap --- portable anonymous mmap

• AuxiliaryVector --- notes on the aux vector passed to programs when they start by the kernel

• SIGILLonBRL --- notes on getting a SIGILL

• syscallMacro --- making syscalls

• SocketServer --- notes on the Python SocketServer class and mixins.

• GlibcDevelopmentEnvironment --- some notes on using chroots with glibc for development

• CheckingForNPTL --- checking for NPTL on your system

• 386-AMD64ABIComparision --- comparision of the 386 and AMD64 ABI

• rdtscOnAmd64 --- reading out rdtsc on AMD64

• utrace --- an example of the ptrace system call

• bindecode --- a small application for decoding various bits of a bitfield

• GCCWithoutGAS

• CauseOfSegFault --- finding if a segfault was caused by read, write or execute permission failure

• sched_yieldConsideredHarmful --- some notes on sched_yield

• GCCCoreDump --- forcing gcc to coredump

• GCCExtensions --- GCC extensions and their meanings

• WhyRegionRegisters --- A note on why Itanium uses region registers, over alternative approaches such as segmentation

• ImplicitPointerDetection --- Finding one of the most common portability problems on IA64