Series 101-2 Development Environment
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
C++ compilers support being passed various flags to control a multitude of options. One such flag determines whether the compiler embeds debugging symbols into/alongside the binary builds, which generates mappings between source code and line numbers that are used by debuggers to set breakpoints, watch variables, modify registers/memory, etc. Most build systems (Make, Ninja, MSBuild, Xcode, etc) group a collection of these options and flags into a build configuration, and most multi-generator build systems (MSBuild, Xcode) provide a handful of built-in defaults (Debug, Release).…more
Series 101-1 Getting Started
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
C++ is a statically typed application/library programming language, where the source code is compiled (and linked) into a native binary for a particular target platform, like x64, ARMv8, etc (and usually also operating system, like Windows, GNU/Linux, Android, etc). The C++ standard only specifies the rules of the language and its behaviour on an abstract machine, and the standard library‘s interface; compilers like Microsoft VC++, LLVM Clang, GCC, Apple C++ (and others) implement the standard and translate the source to actual platform instructions, and also provide the corresponding implementation of the standard library.…more
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