Course Benefits
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:- Improve the readability, testability, portability, reusability and maintainability of existing code
- Completely understand the build process using the gcc tool chain
- Use various options of gcc to control the pre-processed code, compiled code, assembled code and executable code
- Use various gcc options to control optimization, features, includes, libraries and warnings
- Work with external libraries as well as create libraries that can be statically linked or dynamically linked
- Use makefiles to automate as well as simplify the build process
- Use gdb to debug crashing applications or to analyze the working of programs
- Understand the layout of executable files - both on disk as well as in memory
- Understand the environment for the C program and the runtime transfer of control between the kernel space and the user space
- Detect memory leaks and fix them using Valgrind
- Profile applications and find out where time is consumed
- Use powerful custom editing in Vim to enable faster entry of code
- Fix issues and improve readability using CLint
- Generate documentation from the program using Doxygen
Target Audience
- C professionals who want to want to write more effective and efficient code, and use professional tools to monitor, automate and repair
Prerequisites
- Working knowledge of Linux and C