Milan StevanovicAdvanced C and C++ Compiling

As per its contents It is a very very good book. I totally reccomend it.However, the printing quality is disappointing. It is a shame that such a good book is printed this way. It is not worth spending more than 50 euros on a book printed this way. It is a shame because as I said the book is very good

Being a member of my company's engineering team with the longest tenure, I've been recently given a hint by my company's management toget prepared to take on the role of software architect/integrator. Never being comfortable dealing with compiler/linker issues I've started searching for anything that could help me to boost my knowledge.My more experienced friends provided a few good initial tips. First, they mentioned "Linkers and Loaders". The Drepper article was theirsecond suggestion. Finally, they mentioned a fairly recent book written by a guy named after an Italian city ("Milan something").Despite its obvious greatness, the "Linkers and Loaders" book wasn't tailored for my EE/telecom/software background. I simply lacked theinsight into many initial concepts. I've also read the Drepper article and kind of understood fair amount of it. The things that still bothered me were the looming lack of my hands-on experience and the lack of a good starting point.Finally, I've got this book. Bingo!It gave me exactly what I needed - the whole course starting with precise explanation of initial concepts, garnished with simplecode examples. The screen printouts helped me get an idea of what to expect as a result. Above all, the exquisite and sometimes funnyillustrations were powerful in explaining the concepts.The book has several qualities rarely found elsewhere:First, to the best of my knowledge, it is the only book that provides a 'black box' overview of the C/C++ building process. It does not go toofar into the depths of compiling/linking/loading, but all the explanations provide a good overview of the field.Second, it is obviously written by a professional for the professionals.The author obviously knows how the engineering hands-on developers think.He points out the most potent and the most operational details which once absorbed can keep you afloat at all times.Third, it provides a huge amounts of relevant, hard-to-find information. Some of the chapters (e.g. duplicate symbols handling) are not foundelsewhere.Finally, if for no other reason, the quick reference information in the last few chapters alone is worth having this book on the shelf.A must have for any serious professional in the field!

I've been waiting for the book on this topic for a very long time. The author saidit right - you can't be a master of C/C++ programming without handling the compilingand linking issues with ease, and also - there is surprisingly little informationon this topic solidified in the form of a single book.The way how it is written is amazing. Don't remember when it was the last timewhen I went through the technical book with such an ease. The author just knowshow to tell the things in the most effective way. The flow of thoughts and pace of exposing the important facts is perfect, written by a technical mind for the technicalminds.Plenty of carefully tailored yet perfectly simple examples guide you right through the topics. All you need is working OS with the platform-specific compiler (Ubuntu on VMWare Fusion in my case with gcc/g++ installed) and a little time to go through theexamples. Before you know it, you find yourself navigating your way through the stuffof which you previously had very limited or no knowledge whatsoever.The collections of recipes (last 2-3 chapters/HowTo's section) where some of the rarely found tips are exposed is simply brilliant and worth every penny.This book definitely found its place in my collection of books to take to a desert island.

This book was all over the map. It wasn't in depth in ways I wanted it, and provided a lot of information I didn't think belong. For example, it spends a lot of time discussing specific tools for multiple platforms (Unixes and Windows). This made this book feel more like a reference manual thank something you might want to read through. I could see some people benefiting from this approach. But I didn't like it.

A gold mine of technical information on compilers/linkers/loaders and how C/C++ affect them. Easily one of the best technical books in terms of content that I've read in probably 5 years.Despite the great content and walkthroughs, it suffers from two main issues:1. It's primarily Linux-specific, though a lot of the concepts apply to Windows.2. There are a plethora of typographical errors. There are lots of missing spaces between words in tables, missing or extra articles (like "the"). Diagrams are readable but are sometimes fuzzy, probably due to being enlarged. However, I've only found one error effecting the technical content (".bas" instead of ".bss").This book is still incredible and I would make it required reading for teams producing or consuming shared or static libraries. Already gotten my money's worth out of this book multiple times over.A second edition of this book with the above issues addressed would likely become a long-lived classic.