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Handmade Penguin is a tutorial for porting Handmade Hero to Linux using the SDL library.
I thoug…
Yes, __rdtsc() is available for gcc. You just need to do #include <x86intrin.h>
sizeof('a') is 4 in C, but 1 in C++
The game, like the series, is also called Handmade Hero :) And yes, this is a forum for talking …
That doesn't sound like something you should have to do. I don't use GCC anymore, but on LLVM yo…
Although I'm not a spec wrangler myself, my understanding is there are definitely a number of the…
As a sidenote, compilers like LLVM also allow you do to this - if you use an enum for the switch,…
My understanding was that the C++ Committee is still hotly debating whether or not variables are …
I heard there will be The Variable in C++17 is it true?
Oh no no no, my friend. Javascript has variables, if you want them to be variables. You can eve…
Totally tangentially, one of the features that I enjoy in D (the programming language) is "final …
I'll be honest, I knew that this topic was going to be excellent from the title, but I didn't exp…
Very interesting article. Goes to show that you should never just assume that your mental model o…
This is another presentation by Jonathan Blow which I found quite interesting: Implementing rewin…
I think this is the quickest way to tell if you're using a C compiler or a C++ compiler:
1int cl…
Neo Ar —
For C++ the recommended books would be A Tour of C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup and Effective Modern C+…
Don't fight Windows until you know its patterns of behavior/expectations well enough to manipulat…
It's often stated out in the world that "C is a subset of C++". This is not always accurate, and …
Oh god, can I also ride this gravy train all the way to Javascript land? (No seriously, ignore t…
Wow, javascript *and* PHP. This is really top notch. I wonder if we can discover the true nature …
Just thought I'd share that it's possible to compile and run on Linux with Winelib:
1winegcc -mw…
This really needs to have more posts per page, also.. hello!
Troncoso —
I would start by learning C before learning "C for Windows" and there's no better book that the C…
I used to programming years ago took a few detours but want to get back into programming and my d…
It's JavaScript _and_ PHP. It's full banacakes.
Troncoso —
Why is no one talking about the game yet?? I'm assuming that's what the "Game Discussion" section…
Matt —
What is this strange place? How did we let Javascript infect it already?
Troncoso —
Look, I'm posting! I'm part of things!
David —
This must be the best test topic ever. B)
It got it all covered: variables, test topics, half-…