GCC 4.5 promises faster programs using the new link-time optimization (LTO) option, easier implementation of compiler extensions thanks to the controversial plugin infrastructure, stricter standards-conformance for floating-point computations, and better debugging information when compiling with optimizations.

It has been claimed that C++ is a better C them C. this is being taken to mean that when switching to C++ you can continue to code more or less as she did in C and use a little extra C++ functionality for convenience.

Some simple code to demonstrate retrieving coordinates from gpsd. Included is a gps log to use with gpsfake for testing.

"Free Software Supporter is a newsletter run by the FSF (Free Software Foundation) and in it they have a section announcing a few software releases from the GNU project. However, they do not seem to provide any description of the projects aside from their name and version.

ABI-compliance-checker is a lightweight tool for checking backward binary compatibility of shared C/C++ libraries in OS Linux. It checks interface signatures and data type definitions in two library versions (it checks header files along with shared objects) and searches ABI changes that may lead to incompatibility.

Company Donates Industry-Leading Static Analysis Software and Expands Licensing Program

"The GNU system has many nice features that people do not know about, so I thought I'd start of by once in while show a not so well known part of the GNU system. Today, that is argp..."