We’ve all been there: you build your application, run it, and see it crash: possibly with an error message like Segmentation fault (core dumped). The (core dumped) part is what…
Tag: C
Debugging Loading Issues
Sometimes an application works in your developer environment but breaks elsewhere, usually on startup. You may get an error message like: <app>: error while loading shared libraries: lib<libname>.so: cannot open…
Bit-fields
Bit-fields are a feature of the C and C++ languages to optimize the space taken by an integral member variable of a struct or class. It specifies the exact number…