Krister Walfridsson’s old blog

The GCC and LLVM sanitizers are great for finding problems in C++ code, but they do not detect problems with incorrect STL usage. For examp...

I listened to a recent CppCast episode where Balázs Török talked about game development and mentioned that C++ abstractions make the code ...

This is part six of a series “ Writing a GCC back end ”. Cost model – TARGET_RTX_COSTS The compiler often has different options for ho...

This is part five of a series “ Writing a GCC back end ”. The previous post about GCC’s low-level IR did only contain the minimum to g...

The C++ slack channel had a discussion last week about the code #include <array> #include <bitset> #include <cstddef>...

Note: This blog post was written for GCC 7. Later versions of the compiler may have added some of these warnings to -Wall or -Wextra . ...

I have recieved several questions on the previous blog post about what happens for more complex cases, such as #include <cstdlib> ...

My twitter feed has recently been filled with discussions about the following program #include <cstdlib> typedef int (*Function)...