Compilers

Learn about the work involved in adding support for the s390x architecture in LLD, the LLVM linker: methods, results, and benefits for the community.

Learn how to use a linker's section ordering feature to experiment with the layout of code and data in memory, without the need to write full linker scripts.

Printing the value of errno when debugging with GDB should be easy, but sometimes it doesn't work. Learn why this can happen and what you can do about it.

Explore Rust features that can help you write more secure code, along with techniques and tips to help make software more resilient to attacks.

What happens when you mix a decade-old ABI comparison tool and a public Git server? The ability to preview compatibility against distributions/versions you haven't even installed.

Discover new features and enhancements in the C++ front end in GCC 14, the next major version of the GNU Compiler Collection.

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.

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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...

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.