Ever since I started to do 64-bit development, I had a problem with the Boost headers producing a ton of implicit conversion warnings in Xcode. This is due to the fact that I am compiling with the following flag: -Wshorten-64-to-3 I got this idea from both Herb Sutter and the Viva 64 website, where you … Read more
I was having a nice coding day. Xcode was behaving nicely and all of my code seem to behave like I wanted to … then … Crash. Okay. I can handle a crash. But. Looking at the call stack from the crash, something didn’t look right. In the call stack there was a reference to … Read more
During my pilgrimage to Apple in Cupertino California last year, I got to meet some really bright developers at a performance workshop. Of the people who were presenting, Intel was there touting OpenMP. Of course, Apple’s Xcode didn’t yet support OpenMP unless you followed some up-the-sleeve tricks: http://alphakilo.com/openmp-on-os-x-using-gcc-42/