C99 Features

Here is a simple example demonstrating some of the C99 features. It is a test program I wrote for learning from C99 standard. Although it doesn't cover all the new features for C99, I think it is at least a start for people who are not familiar to C99 like me.

Click HERE to download c99.c.

Learning x86 Calling Conventions by Examples

The x86 architecture features many different calling conventions. There are three major calling conventions in use: __cdecl, __stdcall, and __fastcall. We are going to force the compiler to generate assembly with different calling conventions in order to see how they work.

Understand Weak Symbols by Examples

Wikipedia defines the weak symbols: "In computing, a weak symbol is a symbol definition in an object file or dynamic library that may be overridden by other symbol definitions, its value will be zero if no definition found by loader." In other words, we can define a symbol that doesn't need to be resolved at link time. It is a very well-known feature and used a lot in Linux Kernel, Glibc, and so on.