Arjun Shankar's contributions
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How we addressed an unforeseen use case in pthread_atfork()
Members of the Red Hat Platform Tools team recently worked with other community members to implement a fix for odd behavior in glibc's implementation of pthread_atfork().
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A beginner's attempt at optimizing GCC
Implementing a minor tree optimization was a great way to get started with GCC internals while contributing to the community.
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Solving the mystery of hanging character set conversions in glibc's iconv utility
The GNU C Library's iconv utility had a problem with hanging character set conversions. Learn how rewriting iconv's option parsing solved the issue.
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Implicit function declarations: flex's use of "reallocarray"
Compatibility with existing build systems is improved if "reallocarray" is declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE in Fedora's flex package.
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How we addressed an unforeseen use case in pthread_atfork()
Members of the Red Hat Platform Tools team recently worked with other community members to implement a fix for odd behavior in glibc's implementation of pthread_atfork().
Article
A beginner's attempt at optimizing GCC
Implementing a minor tree optimization was a great way to get started with GCC internals while contributing to the community.
Article
Solving the mystery of hanging character set conversions in glibc's iconv utility
The GNU C Library's iconv utility had a problem with hanging character set conversions. Learn how rewriting iconv's option parsing solved the issue.
Article
Implicit function declarations: flex's use of "reallocarray"
Compatibility with existing build systems is improved if "reallocarray" is declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE in Fedora's flex package.