With ever increasing sizes of various programs (video games being notorious for this), the question of size optimization comes up more and more often. [Nathan Otterness] shows us how it’s ...

We’ll start out by introducing you to Mono (very briefly because you’ve probably had this pounded down your throat for the past 2 years) then we’ll present some code and screenshots that demonstrate ...

What happens when you run a Linux command? This simple act can appear straightforward, but many different things can actually occur, depending on whether you’re running an executable program, a shell ...

Alexei Starovoitov posted some patches to allow the kernel to load regular ELF binaries (aka plain executables) as kernel modules. These modules would be able to run user-mode helper routines instead ...

Out of curiosity, I pulled out an old piece of merge-sort code I'd written a few years ago and compiled it using both Dev-C++ and gcc 2.95.3. Dev-C++ is a Win32 port of gcc 2.95.3, for anyone who wasn ...