9 stories tagged gcc, newest first.
11 points by signa11 | 9 comments
Blog post demonstrating with GCC and Clang assembly output that undefined behavior in C/C++ can cause unexpected effects like falling through into unrelated functions.
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21 points by akkartik | 0 comments
Daniel J. Bernstein's paper describing cryptoint, a C/C++ library of constant-time integer functions designed to resist compiler optimizations that introduce timing leaks.
111 points by dverlaeckt80 | 79 comments
Blog post listing incompatibilities between ISO standard C and C as actually used with gcc/clang and glibc/musl.
44 points by torutofu | 5 comments
Mastodon post by Daniel Stenberg noting curl hit two arm64-specific compiler optimization bugs in GCC 15/16 and Rust, linking a GitHub issue.
335 points by arto | 384 comments
LWN brief reporting that the GCC steering committee adopted a policy declining legally significant contributions containing or derived from LLM-generated content.
320 points by sgammon | 111 comments
GitHub release page for Cosmopolitan Libc v3.5.0, a C library and toolchain that builds single binaries running natively on Linux, Mac, Windows, BSDs and BIOS.
360 points by dmalcolm | 125 comments
Red Hat Developer article by David Malcolm describing improvements to the static analyzer (-fanalyzer) in the GCC 14 compiler.
330 points by askl | 222 comments
LWN article reporting on progress of gccrs, a Rust compiler front end for GCC, and the alternative rustc_codegen_gcc approach.
342 points by ingve | 128 comments
Blog post by Malte Skarupke presenting a branchless C++ binary search based on Shar's algorithm that runs over twice as fast as std::lower_bound in GCC.