A Smackerel of Opinion

Last week I was bitten by a interesting C feature. The following terminate function was expected to exit if okay was zero (false) however it...

 Left shifting values seems simple, but the following code contains a bug:     The literal value 1 is actually a signed int, so the promotio...

Intel Hardware P-State (aka Harware Controlled Performance or "Speed Shift") (HWP) is a feature found in more modern x86 Intel CPU...

The release of stress-ng 0.12.12 incorporates some useful features and a handful of new stressors. Media devices such as HDDs and SSDs norm...

C has the useful feature of adjacent allowing literal strings to be automatically concatenated. This is described in K&R "The C pro...