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Making Your Code Walk: GNU Autotools

Have you ever wondered why so many files are shipped in a software source tarball for Linux? Or dreamt of making your own newly developed package highly portable across various Linux platforms? This…

Bit-fields

Joy of Programming: Understanding Bit-fields in C

One important feature that distinguishes C as a systems programming language is its support for bit-fields. Let us explore this feature in this column. In C, structure members can be specified with size…

A bug in my insurance renewal notice

Joy of Programming: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish!

We often try to use a smaller data type to save space. Though it looks like clever programming, it can cause nasty bugs. Let’s look at an example that demonstrates this. A few…

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