The Joy of C Programming
The assignment was simple – take our implementation of a toy cipher called baby rijndael, and adapt it to do CBC mode. Basically all the hard work was already done. For some reason I felt the need to...
View Articlemake alternative for small C/C++ projects
Lately I’ve found maintaining Makefiles tedious, even for small projects. Much can be done with implicit rules, but header file dependencies must still be specified manually (or so I though – more on...
View ArticleSDL Windowed Fullscreen (no mouse trapping)
The fullscreen display mode in SDL traps the mouse on one X display, which can be undesirable if you are running dual head with separate X screens and using SDL for something other than games. UPDATE:...
View ArticleUsing vim like an IDE
I’ve been using The NERD tree for a file list and minibufexpl for tab-like buffer management. To close a buffer, select it in minibufexpl and hit the ‘d’ key. If you want to remap the :bd command so it...
View ArticleUnit Testing with Boost.BuildV2/bjam
The official documentation neglects to mention that you must import the testing module for any of the testing rules to work. I put ‘using testing ;’ in my user-config.jam. I had no trouble with the...
View Articlectags with bjam and eliminating user-config.jam
I added a rule to rebuild my tags file whenever the sources change. It took me way too long to figure this out – I was very surprised that a google search for ‘bjam ctags’ turned up nothing. make tags...
View ArticleSource code management for personal projects
After hearing all the buzz about distributed version control systems (DVCS), I was curious if they offered advantages over subversion for personal code management. The answer is a resounding yes, and I...
View ArticleConverting subversion repositories to git
See How to convert from subversion to git by Paul Dowman. When you use git-svn to clone a subversion repository to git, it converts svn tags to git remote branches. This behavior makes sense if you...
View Articleerror: ‘malloc’ was not declared in this scope
Translation: You are a bad person and did not include stdlib.h. Older versions of gcc let you get away with this. Not so with 4.3. I had similar errors for strcmp when not including string.h. I got...
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