Compilers

Learn about static analysis improvements coming in GCC 14 with -fanalyzer, which helps identify issues in C code at compile-time, rather than at runtime.

Discover how you can use the Go debugger, Delve, to add debug support for stripped binaries devoid of any symbol information.

Red Hat is considering building Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 for the x86-64-v3 microarchitecture level.

This article demonstrates how lazy debuginfo loading improves GDB and Valgrind debugging performance.

In this lab, you will perform the installation of the GNU Compiler Collection 12 from the Red Hat Developer Toolset and build a simple C++ Hello World application.

This article summarizes the new improvements added to GCC optimizers in the form of an oracle.

Check out the top 10 Linux articles we published for developers in 2023, covering new features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, containers, GCC 13, and more.

Learn how developers can achieve higher performance using the GCC compiler system's vectorization features.

A technical deep-dive into single-iteration InstCombine, one of the compile-time improvements implemented in LLVM 18.

Explore RHEL 9.3 updates that improve developer experience, including new language runtimes, toolsets, and compilers, system role updates, and more.

Explore how frame pointers can be used to unwind Linux kernel stack traces and examine different ways to obtain a backtrace, along with their pros and cons.

Learn how the FORTIFY_SOURCE feature in the GNU C library improves C code security by detecting and preventing buffer overflow, and more.

Discover the benefits of the Fedora 38 new feature for ppc64le. Now Clang uses the IEEE 128-bit long double by default.

Explore new features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2, which provides a flexible and stable foundation to support hybrid cloud innovations.

The GNU Compiler Collection 13 release implemented a number of interesting features in its C front-end. This article summarizes the most interesting ones.

Learn how to use GDB to debug C++ lambda expressions and explore some of the challenges associated with debugging function objects.

Learn about an upcoming change in GCC 13's libstdc++ that reduces executable size and improves startup times for C++ programs that use the <iostream> header.

Discover how to improve application and library security at the source with _FORTIFY_SOURCE macro defined to 3 and how it impacts performance.

The GCC compiler is expanding range tracking in optimizations.

Interested in contributing to the open source LLVM project? This article walks you through the process.

Learn about 8 optimization techniques for a faster interpreter in Ruby which I developed using a dynamically specialized internal representation (IR).

Learn about the new features from OpenMP 5.1 and OpenMP 5.2 which are implemented in GCC 12.

Could your perfectly running program blow up someday? Learn different types of behavior in the standard and what helps make a correct C or C++ program.

Discover how flexible array members offer convenience and improve performance, and how compiler complexities are mitigated.

Discover the gains and costs of GCC’s enhanced runtime buffer overflow protection. Level 3 _FORTIFY_SOURCE preprocessor macro may detect more buffer overflows, but there’s a cost.