Creating and using shared library

• On Linux:

  gcc -shared -fPIC foo.c -o foo.so
  export LD_PRELOAD=`pwd`/foo.so
  

  If using relative path to specify shared library, ld.so will report error for can’t preload the specified library and ignore that error.

• On Mac OS X:

  gcc -dynamiclib -undefined suppress -flat_namespace foo.c -o foo.dylib
  export DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=`pwd`/foo.dylib
  

  Also not the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. From Where is LD_PRELOAD under Mac OS X?

  dyld will look for the library in the specified location. If it does not exist, it will look in specific library paths specified in DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. If the linking works and the library is able to match the symbols, the program will run, otherwise it will fail.

  For more information about dynamic library on OS X, refer to my Mac notes.

List all pre-defined macros

From Stack Overflow, Using the following command

touch dummy
cpp -dM ./dummy

Runtime checks

From

• -fmudflap find pointer arithmetic errors during runtime
• -fstack-check stack overflow protection
• -gnato checks for overflows during integer operations

Extensions to C

Binary literals

Use the 0b prefix:

int integer=0b10111001;