I sometimes see even seasoned developers be reluctant to use a different gcc version (ie. to reproduce a potentially compiler-specific issue or just to experiment with new optimisations or features). The reason is a fear of breaking their system by installing multiple compilers, or even by replacing their system compiler with a new one. But… Continue reading Installing GCC-4.3.1
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Suduko solver
There are probably tons of these already available, but here is a quick suduko solver (in Perl): #! /usr/bin/perl # Example: # # echo $’ 2 \n 1 9 4 \n 2 1 5 9\n3 6 \n 68 41 5\n 427 8 \n 51 \n 7 3 \n79 5 ‘| perl suduko-solve.pl # use strict;… Continue reading Suduko solver
Visual Studio limitations
MySQL 5.1 is moving to a new system for building the source code on Windows, based on CMake (more on this another time). While finishing up the last bits of this, I ran into a very annoying limitation in Visual Studio (version 7.1 I think). The library include path in Visual Studio project files (.vcproj)… Continue reading Visual Studio limitations