Recently, when while coding in C language, I came across and unexpected line of code in the sprintf format argument of “/tmp/%s-XXXXXX”. Here is the snippet of the code which I got: I would like to share the steps that helped me understand What does the XXXXXX in an sprintf format argument of “/tmp/%s-XXXXXX”. Why …
While coding in C language, I recently stumbled upon some movzx uses by both Clang and GCC compilers, which was very unexpected to me. Here is the sample of code I tried with GCC 12: When i tried to use the code with clang i got an even more different and confusing output I would like to …
I’ve been using C++ and compiling with clang++. I would like to include the <xcb/xkb.h> header for an X11 program I am writing. Unfortunately this header uses explicit for some field names (such as line 727) and that is a keyword in C++. Is there anyway to deal with this? xcb/xkb.h: Solution 1: Use a macro to rename the …