How to deal with symbol collisions between statically linked libraries?

At least in the case of static libraries you can work around it quite conveniently. Consider those headers of libraries foo and bar. For the sake of this tutorial I’ll also give you the source files examples/ex01/foo.h int spam(void); double eggs(void); examples/ex01/foo.c (this may be opaque/not available) int the_spams; double the_eggs; int spam() { return … Read more

When to use symbols instead of strings in Ruby?

TL;DR A simple rule of thumb is to use symbols every time you need internal identifiers. For Ruby < 2.2 only use symbols when they aren’t generated dynamically, to avoid memory leaks. Full answer The only reason not to use them for identifiers that are generated dynamically is because of memory concerns. This question is … Read more

How to check if program was compiled with debug symbols? [duplicate]

You can use file and objdump on Linux. In particular, you can look at whether file says “stripped” or “not stripped” (under my Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, whether an executable is compiled with -g or not shows not stripped with file command. But the one with -g, shows with debug_info, in addition to that), and whether … Read more

HTML for the Pause symbol in audio and video control

Unicode Standard for Media Control Symbols Pause: ⏸︎ The Unicode Standard 13.0 (update 2020) provides the Miscellaneous Technical glyphs in the HEX range 2300–23FF Miscellaneous Technical Given the extensive Unicode 13.0 documentation, some of the glyphs we can associate to common Media control symbols would be as following: Keyboard and UI symbols 23CF ⏏︎ Eject … Read more

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