Pointers? Pointers. Mar 09, 2008

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Tags: C, Introduction, Pointers, Tutorial

This is my attempt at demystifying pointers, a very useful concept available in C, C++ and other programming languages that do not lack balls. This is a living tutorial, i.e. you can suggest things and I’ll make it better. I’m all for a good pointer tutorial.

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What exactly does GCC optimize? Nov 07, 2007

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Tags: C, MinGW, Programming

All compilers optimize code to some extent, some better than others. However, at least to me a great amount of the nature of the optimizations is unclear, outside the explicitly stated loop unrolling and like. Let’s find out which kind of programmer laziness and/or stupidity gets eliminated.

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