Krister Walfridsson’s old blog

I wrote in my previous post that I assumed Jason compiled using the -O2 optimization level for the example in his CppCon 2016 talk , as i...

Jason Turner mentions in his CppCon 2016 talk that GCC optimizes the function int foo () { return std::string( "a" ).size...

The technical report " The Renewed Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer: Avoiding ISA Bloat with Macro-Op Fusion for RISC-V ...

I read an  IWOCL 2016 conference paper " OpenCL-Based Mobile GPGPU Benchmarking: Methods and Challenges " that gives some good a...

A previous blog post  mentioned two properties of NULL that many developers find surprising: NULL does not need to be 0 when stored i...

There are some subtle differences between the revisions of the C standard that makes it possible to create programs that behaves differentl...

I have added MathJax support to this blog so that I can typeset mathematics using a large subset of \(\LaTeX\) commands . This functionali...

Microsoft Research recently announced a work-in-progress project, Checked C , that adds bounds checking to pointers and arrays: Checked C...