Observations from Uppsala » IAR Systems http://jakob.engbloms.se Computer Technology: Simulation, Virtualization, Virtual Platforms, Embedded, Multicore and Multiprocessing (by Jakob Engblom) Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:45:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Observations from Uppsala http://jakob.engbloms.se/favicon.png http://jakob.engbloms.se 32 32 Observations from Uppsala - http://jakob.engbloms.se Getting the Least of our your C Compiler – The Best Article I have ever written? http://jakob.engbloms.se/archives/750?&owa_medium=feed&owa_sid= http://jakob.engbloms.se/archives/750#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:01:47 +0000 Jakob http://jakob.engbloms.se/?p=750 Back in 2001, while a PhD student at Uppsala University and IAR Systems, I wrote what has to be the most popular and long-lived article I ever did: “Getting the Least out of Your C Compiler“. It was an Embedded Systems Conference class that I also presented in 2002 (after that, I changed jobs to Virtutech and therefore C programming was no longer my official topic). However, the text has lived on. It was featured as a chapter in  the “Firmware Handbook” edited by Jack Ganssle, translated into German by IAR Germany, and has popped up in various places from time to time.

Last week, it resurfaced at Embedded.com, with an attribution that was initially wrong.

However, now these issues have been resolved, and the article is online as part 5 of a series of book chapter excerpts from the Firmware Handbook.

I do think the material still has value, and that it is a good intro to how compilers work. The coding tips seem to have stood the test of time, but I would love to know how they can be updated given compiler technology updates in the past eight years.

Please note that Embedded.com are still struggling to get authorships right, so now I have been attributed a bit more material than is fair. Hopefully, they can resolve this soon:

incorrect-attribution

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