strtol() converts a string to an integer, a long integer but an integer nevertheless. There is atoi() but it should be avoided in most cases due to the fact that it lacks a mechanism for error reporting from invalid input.
I think that the version of libc with debug symbols is in /usr/lib/debug/lib. I tried setting my LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable to have this at the front of the path but that did not seem to make a difference. These are not the droids you are looking for. The libraries in /usr/lib/debug are not real libraries. Rather, … Read more
All modern terminal emulators use ANSI escape codes to show colours and other things. Don’t bother with libraries, the code is really simple. More info is here. Example in C: #include <stdio.h> #define ANSI_COLOR_RED “\x1b[31m” #define ANSI_COLOR_GREEN “\x1b[32m” #define ANSI_COLOR_YELLOW “\x1b[33m” #define ANSI_COLOR_BLUE “\x1b[34m” #define ANSI_COLOR_MAGENTA “\x1b[35m” #define ANSI_COLOR_CYAN “\x1b[36m” #define ANSI_COLOR_RESET “\x1b[0m” int main … Read more
Very often, malloc and free are using lower-level virtual memory allocation services and allocating several pages (or even megabytes) at once, using system calls like mmap and munmap (and perhaps sbrk). Often malloc prefers to reuse previously freed memory space when relevant. Most malloc implementations use various and different strategies for “large” and “small” allocations, … Read more
If you compile your code with -nostdlib, you won’t be able to call any C library functions (of course), but you also don’t get the regular C bootstrap code. In particular, the real entry point of a program on Linux is not main(), but rather a function called _start(). The standard libraries normally provide a … Read more
Work out which symbols in your executable are creating the dependency on the undesired version of glibc. $ objdump -p myprog … Version References: required from libc.so.6: 0x09691972 0x00 05 GLIBC_2.3 0x09691a75 0x00 03 GLIBC_2.2.5 $ objdump -T myprog | fgrep GLIBC_2.3 0000000000000000 DF *UND* 0000000000000000 GLIBC_2.3 realpath Look within the depended-upon library to see … Read more
You need to rebuild boost using clang++ -stdlib=libc++. libc++ is not binary compatible with gcc’s libstdc++ (except for some low level stuff such as operator new). For example the std::string in gcc’s libstdc++ is refcounted, whereas in libc++ it uses the “short string optimization”. If you were to accidentally mix these two strings in the … Read more
You are correct in that glibc uses symbol versioning. If you are curious, the symbol versioning implementation introduced in glibc 2.1 is described here and is an extension of Sun’s symbol versioning scheme described here. One option is to statically link your binary. This is probably the easiest option. You could also build your binary … Read more
Here are some examples of std::unique_ptr with incomplete types. The problem lies in destruction. If you use pimpl with unique_ptr, you need to declare a destructor: class foo { class impl; std::unique_ptr<impl> impl_; public: foo(); // You may need a def. constructor to be defined elsewhere ~foo(); // Implement (with {}, or with = default;) … Read more
The libc++ basic_string is designed to have a sizeof 3 words on all architectures, where sizeof(word) == sizeof(void*). You have correctly dissected the long/short flag, and the size field in the short form. what value would __min_cap, the capacity of short strings, take for different architectures? In the short form, there are 3 words to … Read more