Compilers

Smash-stacking attacks are common, but the GCC and Clang compilers have a number of flags that can help defend against them. Read on for more info.

Version 12 of GCC implements much of the recent C++ standard, allows a number of previously prohibited constructs, and fixes some problematic behaviors.

New features and a substantial reduction in false positives bring GCC's static analysis closer to being production-ready for C code.

Discover how Red Hat protects GCC 12 code from Trojan Source attacks. Learn how we defend our customers against this recent software vulnerability.

Find out what debugging information is, where it's stored, and how to inspect it. This article is the second of a three-part series about using GNU Debugger.

Find out what's new in Libabigail 2.0, including updates to the symbol table reader component, ABIXML format, and moving to the Apache 2 license.

Discover how runtime profiling in OpenJDK's HotSpot JVM improves speculation and contributes to optimization in this Red Hat guide with illustrated benefits.

RHEL 9 Beta features GCC 11, glibc 2.34, updated compilers, enhanced application streams, Python 3.9, and more. Plus, it's built from CentOS Stream!

When the LLVM package build with the Clang compiler's link-time optimization activated failed, the LLVM packaging team knew they had a mystery to solve.