C-Programming-Tools 2017 Second Lecture Materials

C Programming Tools Second Lecture: 1st June 2017

d.white@imperial.ac.uk
My colleague Evangelos Ververas has just given the second of my 4 first year lectures on C Programming Tools, building a toolbox of useful tools, and the craft skills to use them effectively, in order to make C programming easier.

The second lecture covers the following topics:

Debugging: debug faulty programs.

Detecting Memory Leaks: using valgrind.

Optimization-driven Profiling using -pg/gprof.

Automatic Testing via make and cmake.

Here are the lecture materials, covering the lecture and associated examples (of which there are many):

Here are the lecture slides (PDF), ie. with one slide per page.

And here's the Second C Tools tarball, as a gzipped tar file:

Download this into your home directory,
Then extract the contents via: tar xzf c-tools-lecture2.tgz
This creates a directory called c-tools-lecture2 (Don't forget to delete the tarball later to save space!)
Explore the c-tools-lecture2 directory, I suggest you start with the top level README.

d.white@imperial.ac.uk
Updated: May 2017 Back to my C Tools Lectures Pages.