Max Rees (they/them)Senior Curriculum Development Specialist
Department of Computer Science
Interesting articles on the C programming language (and adjacent topics)
[HTML] Constant Integer Type Declarations Initialized With Constant Expressions Should Be Constants . 16 June 2024 by JeanHeyd Meneide.[HTML] Option Soup: the subtle pitfalls of combining compiler flags . 29 January 2024 by Mozilla's Serge Guelton & Yannis Juglaret.[HTML] Better handling of integer wraparound in the kernel . 26 January 2024 by LWN's Jonathan Corbet.[HTML] C23: a slightly better C . 21 January 2024 by Daniel Lemire.[HTML] Modern C for Fedora (and the world) . 08 December 2023 by LWN's Jonathan Corbet.[HTML] setenv is not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It . 19 November 2023 by Evan Jones.[HTML] The Sinking of the Itanic . 17 November 2023 by A. Wilcox.[HTML] Better string handling for the kernel . 26 October 2023 by LWN's Jonathan Corbet.[HTML] Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler . 25 October 2023 by Google's Russ Cox.[HTML] Recent improvements in GCC diagnostics . 13 October 2023 by LWN's Jonathan Corbet.[HTML] How were the signs for logical and arithmetic operators decided? 26 September 2023 on the retrocomputing Stack Exchange.[PDF] ELF binaries and all the things that happen before main() . 15 September 2023 by Janne Johansson at EuroBSDCon 2023.[HTML] Scope-based resource management for the kernel . 15 June 2023 by LWN's Jonathan Corbet.[HTML] The Linux kernel will fix some peculiar argv usage in execve(2) . 05 June 2023 by the University of Toronto's Chris Siebenmann.[HTML] Improvements to static analysis in the GCC 13 compiler . 31 May 2023 by Red Hat's David Malcolm.[HTML] RFC: Enforcing Bounds Safety in C (-fbounds-safety) . 24 May 2023 by Apple's Yeoul Na.[HTML] Experimental feature gate for extern "crabi" ABI . 09 May 2023 by Josh Triplett.[MAIL] More C type errors by default for GCC 14 . 09 May 2023 by Red Hat's Florian Weimer.[HTML] New C features in GCC 13 . 04 May 2023 by Red Hat's Marek Polacek.[HTML] Flattening ASTs (and Other Compiler Data Structures) . 01 May 2023 by Cornell's Professor Adrian Sampson.[HTML] A kernel without buffer heads . 01 May 2023 by LWN's Jonathan Corbet.[HTML] My favorite C compiler flags during development . 29 April 2023 by Chris Wellons.[HTML] The Full-Source Bootstrap: Building from source all the way down . 26 April 2023 by Janneke Nieuwenhuizen and Ludovic Courtès.[MAIL] RFC: More C errors by default in GCC 14 (no more implicit function decls) . 18 April 2023 by Red Hat's Florian Weimer.[HTML] Memory Allocation . 13 April 2023 by Sam Rose.[HTML] Writing portable ARM64 assembly . 13 April 2023 by Ariadne Conill.[HTML] The early days of Linux . 12 April 2023 by Lars Wirzenius.[HTML] The shrinking role of semaphores . 07 April 2023 by LWN's Jonathan Corbet.[HTML] How SerenityOS declares ssize_t . 04 April 2023 by Andreas Kling.[HTML] A leaner <iostream> in libstdc++ for GCC 13 . 03 April 2023 by Red Hat's Patrick Palka.[HTML] C++17 creates a practical use of the backward array index operator . 03 April 2023 by Microsoft's Raymond Chen.[HTML] Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes . 06 March 2023 by Julia Evans.[HTML] Safety and Soundness in Rust . 05 March 2023 by Jack O'Connor.[HTML] gotophobia considered harmful (in C) . 26 February 2023 by Jakub Łukasiewicz.[HTML] size_t Is Not int . 12 February 2023 by Chris Palmer.[HTML] Undefined behavior, and the Sledgehammer Principle . 02 February 2023 by JeanHeyd Meneide.[HTML] C was not created as an abstract machine (of course) . 01 February 2023 by the University of Toronto's Chris Siebenmann.[HTML] All about UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer . 29 January 2023 by Fangrui Song.[HTML] Distinguishing an Interpreter from a Compiler . 26 January 2023 by by King's College - London's Laurence Tratt.[HTML] Bounded Flexible Arrays in C . 23 January 2023 by Kees Cook.[HTML] Nolibc: a minimal C-library replacement shipped with the kernel . 20 January 2023 by Willy Tarreau.[HTML] Setting the clock ahead to see what breaks . 19 January 2023 by Rachel Kroll.[HTML] A brave new world: building glibc with LLVM . 17 January 2023 by Collabora's Adrian Ratiu.[HTML] Some notes on working with old C code . 02 January 2023 by Sean Conner.[HTML] What’s the deal with Cisco devices in file output, anyway? 27 December 2022 by A. Wilcox.[HTML] Checked integer arithmetic in the prospect of C23 . 18 December 2022 by INRIA's Jens Gustedt.[HTML] Goodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig . 07 December 2022 by Andrew Kelley.[HTML] Falsehoods programmers believe about undefined behavior . 27 November 2022 by Predrag Gruevski.[HTML] Figuring out round, floor and ceil with integer division . 25 November 2022 by Clément Bœsch.[HTML] Everything I wish I knew when learning C . 18 November 2022 by Tom Mewett.[HTML] Considering C99 for curl . 17 November 2022 by Daniel Stenberg.[HTML] How to categorize C programs by behavior . 15 November 2022 by Red Hat's Martin Sebor.[HTML] P2723R0: Zero-initialize objects of automatic storage duration . 15 November 2022 by JF Bastien.[HTML] Modernizing Fedora's C code . 02 November 2022 by LWN's Jake Edge.[HTML] Would you like signs with those chars? 24 October 2022 by LWN's Jonathan Corbet.[HTML] Time is an illusion, Unix time doubly so... 23 October 2022 by Jan Schaumann.[HTML] Always use [closed, open) intervals . 07 October 2022 by Fernando Hurtado Cardenas.[HTML] How to fix an ancient GDB problem . 29 September 2022 by LWN's Jonathan Corbet.[HTML] Supporting CHERI capabilities in GCC and glibc . 26 September 2022 by LWN's Jonathan Corbet.[HTML] BPF as a safer kernel programming environment . 23 September 2022 by David Vernet.[HTML] Safer flexible arrays for the kernel . 22 September 2022 by LWN's Jake Edge.[HTML] Introducing io_uring_spawn . 20 September 2022 by LWN's Jake Edge.[HTML] GCC's new fortification level: the gains and costs . 17 September 2022 by Red Hat's Siddhesh Poyarekar.[HTML] The road to Zettalinux . 16 September 2022 by LWN's Jonathan Corbet.[HTML] Someone's Been Messing With My Subnormals! 06 September 2022 by New York Univeristy - Tandon School of Engineering's Brendan Dolan-Gavitt. This is nominally a story about Python's packaging ecosystem, but -ffast-math rears its ugly head here. [HTML] What's in a (type) name? 02 September 2022 by LWN's Jonathan Corbet.[HTML] C xor C++ Programming: Situations where the same code has different meaning in C and C++ . 03 August 2022 by Intel's Aaron Ballman.[PDF] C23 working draft . 08 June 2022.[HTML] A game for learning C operator precedence . 08 May 2022 by Hugo Landau.[HTML] You should know: rand() may call malloc() . 07 April 2022 by Adam Dunkels.[HTML] Moving the kernel to modern C . 24 February 2022 by LWN's Jonathan Corbet.[HTML] C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete' . 19 February 2022.[PDF] How ISO C became unusable for operating systems development . 19 January 2022 by Victor Yodaiken.[HTML] glibc is still not Y2038 compliant by default . 29 December 2021 by Ariadne Conill.[HTML] Stop defining feature-test macros in your code . 21 December 2021 by Ariadne Conill.[HTML] Uninitialized stack variables . 24 November 2021 by Jan Schaumann.[HTML] Duff's device in 2021 . 18 November 2021 by Chloé Lourseyre.[HTML] V7 Unix had no stack size limit, and when Unix acquired one . 10 October 2021 by the University of Toronto's Chris Siebenmann.[HTML] Stack size is invisible in C and the effects on "portability" . 27 September 2021 by the University of Toronto's Chris Siebenmann.[HTML] Pitfalls of VLA in C . 05 July 2021 by Jakub Łukasiewicz.[HTML] The Unix process API is unreliable and unsafe . 08 May 2021 by Spencer Baugh.[HTML] "A damn stupid thing to do"—the origins of C . 09 December 2020 by Ars Technica's Richard Jensen.[HTML] Peeking under the hood of GCC's __builtin_expect . 23 March 2020 by Tudor Brindus.[HTML] The worst of time64 breakage . 15 February 2020 by Rich Felker.[HTML] Some obscure C features . 21 August 2019 by Victor Collod.[PDF] ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 N2363: C provenance semantics: examples . 01 April 2019.[HTML] But is it atomic? 29 November 2018 by Kristian Köhntopp.[VIDEO] The History of Fire Escapes . 08 August 2018 by Squarespace's Tanya Reilly.[VIDEO] Where did Bytes Come From? 01 May 2018 by Professor David Brailsford, University of Nottingham.[PDF] Taming undefined behavior in LLVM . PLDI 2017 by Juneyoung Lee, Yoonseung Kim, Youngju Song, Chung-Kil Hur, Sanjoy Das, David Majnemer, John Regehr, and Nuno P. Lopes.[HTML] ABC: A C compiler for printable x86 . SIGBOVIK 2017 by Tom Murphy VII.[PDF] Detecting Strict Aliasing Violations in the Wild . VMCAI 2017 by Pascal Cuoq, Loïc Runarvot, and Alexander Cherepanov.[HTML] On sprintf() Fails . 16 July 2016 by Georg Sauthoff.[HTML] main is usually a function. So then when is it not? 26 January 2015 by James Rowe.[HTML] Undefined behavior can result in time travel . 27 June 2014 by Microsoft's Raymond Chen.[HTML] Undefined behaviour . 13 February 2014 by ARM's Szabolcs Nagy.[HTML] Incorrect configure checks for availability of functions . 14 August 2013 by Rich Felker.[HTML] NULL considered harmful . 04 July 2013 by Rich Felker.[HTML] Don't be afraid of variably modified types . 09 January 2011 by INRIA's Jens Gustedt.[HTML] How many bits has a byte? 01 June 2010 by INRIA's Jens Gustedt.[USENET] Operator precedence . 22 October 1982 by Dennis Ritchie.
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