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Clang Hardening Cheat Sheet edit / delete
clang's equivalents of the GCC hardening options. Mostly the same.
to c c++ clang compiler gcc hardening security ... on 16 January 2016
c4 extended to be a JIT compiler. This is now moving into tcc territory...
A little self-hosting C subset interpreter. Very neat! Compare this with Diomidis Spinellis' little self-hosting C bytecode compiler in the IOCCC a while back...
to c compiler cute-code interpreter ... on 18 January 2015
Time, Clock, and Calendar Programming In C edit / delete
Nice explanation of the various historical stages of development of the C time APIs.
to ag0803 api c calendar date posix time timing unix ... on 03 October 2014
Index of /~plonka/headers edit / delete
Tool for automatically emitting #includes for POSIX functions that have been used (which was on my ideas list).
The implementation of iterators in C# and its consequences (part 1) - The Old New Thing - Site Home - MSDN Blogs edit / delete
How C# implements generators by desugaring them into a state machine.
to c generator iterator language-design sugar ... on 13 August 2014
A dangling pointer is indeterminate | TrustInSoft edit / delete
Well, that's an interesting bit of the C standard: "free(m); if (m == NULL) ..." is undefined behaviour...
to c language-design memory semantics undefined ... on 15 July 2014
Honza Hubička's Blog: Linktime optimization in GCC, part 1 - brief history edit / delete
Excellent overview of the different whole-program optimisation strategies that GCC has explored. Some other good stuff about compiler optimisation on this blog too.
The Power of Ten -- Rules for Writing Safety Critical Code edit / delete
This largely matches what I'd recommend anyway, but perhaps I should encourage students to make more use of assertions. This could be summarised as "make it possible to do static analysis on your code".
to ag0700 c coding-style safety static-analysis ... on 26 March 2014
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tasty by Adam Sampson.