Three GCC Flags for Analyzing Memory Usage

I learned about three new GCC compiler/linker flags this week that are helpful for monitoring a system’s memory usage. I was surprised that I hadn’t previously run across them, and it seems like other developers in my network didn’t know about these flags either! Perhaps this isn’t too out of the ordinary considering that two …

Demystifying ARM Floating Point Compiler Options

When I first started bringing up new ARM platforms, I was pretty confused by the various floating point options such as -mfloat-abi=softfp or -mfpu=fpv4-sp-d16. I imagine this is confusing to other developers as well, so I'd like to share my ARM floating-point cheat sheet with the world. An Overview of the ARM Floating-Point Architecture Before …