Of course I know what big endian and little endian are. The problem is I cannot memorize the difference between them. The cause is I misunderstand the meaning of the […]

What is variable initialization? Variable initialization is giving a value to a variable at the time of defining the variable. There are quite a few methods to give a value […]

The answer is using the sizeof operator. The important thing is that sizeof always returns the number of bytes of the operand regardless it is an array or a basic […]

We know an ordinary member function can not be defined multiple times. Suppose you have the following 3 files a.h, a.cpp, and main.cpp: //a.h #ifndef A_H #define A_H #include <iostream> […]

You can call a function of the debugged inferior in GDB CLI. Suppose you have a program: #include <stdio.h> void sayhi() { printf(“hi\n”); } int main() { printf(“hello world\n”); sayhi(); […]

You may think all the optimisations are turned off thoroughly if you do not provide the -O option for gcc. But according to this post, if you do not give […]

You’re so lucky to visit my yet another Makefile tutorial because there are so many tutorials about Makefile on the Internet that it is almost impossible for my post to […]

I often see people use #if and #ifdef interchangeably. #if MYMACRO … #else … #endif   #ifdef MYMACRO … #else … #endif They seem to achieve the same result. If […]

If you are compiling code that use old openssl lib(such as openssl 1.0.2) with the latest openssl lib such as openssl 1.1.0, you will meet this error: invalid use of […]

When compiling with Mingw 32bit, the size of long and unsigned long is 4 bytes, the size of long long and unsigned long long is 8 bytes. To print a […]