In this excerpt from his book “Write Great Code,” Randall Hyde introduces the common optimizations that compilers perform, and when a programmer should consider using or disabling them. Later chapters ...

Older CPUs and some fairly modern microcontrollers are not made to readily support C compilers. Among those are the 1802, some 8-bit PICs, and the 6502 at the heart of the Commodore 64. That’s not to ...

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...