Performance gains of up to approximately 30% over gcc 3.2. Optional Fortran compiler vs. g77, which translates into C and compiles with GCC. GCC compatibility mode. 64-bit support (Intel Itanium only) ...

We all know Linux is written in C. What you may not know is that it's written in a long-outdated C dialect: The 1989 version of the C language standard, C89. This is also known as ANSI X3.159-1989, or ...

Kernel development is always strange. Andrea Parri recently posted a patch to change the order of memory reads during multithreaded operation, such that if one read depended upon the next, the second ...

There was a time when trying to learn to write low-level driver or kernel code was hard. You really needed two machines: one to work with, and one to screw up over and over again until you got it ...