Sure, the framework includes a compiler, csc.exe. Look at this article for a quick how-to. The important parts: You can get the command-line compiler (csc.exe) from Microsoft site http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa731542.aspx. Download the redistributable package of the .NET Framework, which includes the compiler and the .NET Framework with C# 2005 syntax support. The compiler is located in … Read more
Related: Does a compiler always produce an assembly code? – more about why some compilers do compile only to asm, instead of straight to machine code in some object file format. There are several reasons that compiling to asm instead of machine code makes a compiler’s job easier and a compiler more easily portable. But … Read more
See this scala-debate thread for a discussion of what’s going on here. The problem is that Scala’s type inference happens per parameter list, not per parameter. As Josh Suereth notes in that thread, there’s a good reason for the current approach. If Scala had per-parameter type inference, the compiler couldn’t infer an upper bound across … Read more
In years past, ignoring this use of the first column could cause bad things on a line printer, like page ejects — but when was the last time that you saw a line printer? Otherwise it was output device, compiler and OS dependent. The advice of “Fortran 95/2003 for Scientists and Engineers” was excellent for … Read more
The linker cannot find librt which is probably the Posix real time extensions library. I don’t think this is available on OSX. Googling gives this from Apple developer lists Question from list I’m trying to build a simulator developed in my university (on Linux) and I get error by the linker that seems unable to … Read more
What you know is false. Volatile is not used to synchronize memory access between threads, apply any kind of memory fences, or anything of the sort. Operations on volatile memory are not atomic, and they are not guaranteed to be in any particular order. volatile is one of the most misunderstood facilities in the entire … Read more
Summary: try to allocate memory near your static code. But for calls that can’t reach with rel32, fall back to call qword [rel pointer] or inline mov r64,imm64 / call r64. Your mechanism 5. is probably best for performance if you can’t make 2. work, but 4. is easy and should be fine. Direct call … Read more
I’m just curious to know why this sudden change in the behavior of uninitialized bool? Disassemble the code and see what the compiler’s doing. My guess: since the value is now only used locally, the compiler optimizes it away completely. Since the behaviour is undefined anyway, the compiler can safely just assume any value, e.g. … Read more
In this case the compiler detects that s is written but not read, and deliberately suppresses the warning. The reason is because C# is a garbage-collected language, believe it or not. How do you figure that? Well, consider the following. You have a program which calls a method DoIt() that returns a string. You do … Read more
The following is the decompiled ValueType.Equals method from mscorlib: public override bool Equals(object obj) { if (obj == null) { return false; } RuntimeType type = (RuntimeType) base.GetType(); RuntimeType type2 = (RuntimeType) obj.GetType(); if (type2 != type) { return false; } object a = this; if (CanCompareBits(this)) { return FastEqualsCheck(a, obj); } FieldInfo[] fields = … Read more