Archive for February 2016

Looking forward to GCC6 – Many new warnings

Like every new GCC release, GCC6 introduces a lot of new useful warnings. My favorite is still -Wmisleading-indentation. But there are many more that have found various bugs. Not all of them are enabled by default, but it makes sense to enable as many as possible when writing new code. Duplicate logic In GCC6 -Wlogical-op […]

Where are your symbols, debuginfo and sources?

A package is more than a binary – make it observable Introduction I gave a presentation at Fosdem 2016 in the distributions developer room. This article is an extended version of the slide presenter notes. You can get the original from the talk page (press ‘h’ for help and ‘p’ to get the presenter view […]