Profiling is a crucial step in optimizing the performance of C programs, allowing developers to identify and improve the most time-consuming parts of their code. GNU Gprof is a powerful profiling tool ...

Arguably, Microchip’s PIC microcontrollers do not get enough posts here. One of the drawbacks for some of us is that Linux support for PICs is not very well known. The information is out there, but no ...

In this TechRepublic How to Make Tech Work video, Jack Wallen shows you the step-by-step process of compiling a C++ program on Linux, using Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 for his demo. I am going to show you ...

I recently created a video demonstration of how to do some work at the command line, but as I tried to record my video, I kept running into problems. I'm just not the kind of person who can type ...

Second question is about forks. The program will fork () four times, and all the child processes need to have root privileges as well. I would imagine that privileges are inherited so it shouldn't be ...

TCP/IP network programming in C on Linux is good fun. All the advanced features of the stack are at your disposal, and you can do lot of interesting things in user space without getting into kernel ...