I found this post in which a guy, called James Rowe, successfully compiled a program in which he defined a variable called main and made it work as if there was an actually int main(){...}. So, before I finished to read the whole post I decided t...
In my journey to master the most obscure and secrets arts of computer systems, I started by mastering the basics. One thing I have never worried to learn properly was linking, since most of the projects I worked on had everything set, Makefile wa...
In college I asked this all the time, specially when there were a small set of choices. I read the book Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective and it explains with examples what compiler does when facing either a switch or if-else statement.