Linux Make Tutorial Part 3

The `make' utility automatically determines which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled, and issues commands to recompile them. This manual describes GNU `make', which was implemented by Richard

Stallman and Roland McGrath. Development since Version 3.76 has been handled by Paul D. Smith.

Using Valgrind to Find Memory Leaks and Invalid Memory Use

Valgrind is a multipurpose code profiling and memory debugging tool for Linux when on the x86 and, as of version 3, AMD64, architectures. It allows you to run your program in Valgrind's own environment that monitors memory usage such as calls to malloc and free (or new and delete in C++). If you use uninitialized memory, write off the end of an array, or forget to free a pointer, Valgrind can detect it. Since these are particularly common problems, this tutorial will focus mainly on using Valgrind to find these types of simple memory problems, though Valgrind is a tool that can do a lot more.

vim Editor Tutorial

Emacs may show its age, but before there was an emacs, vi was the best thing around. The fact that vi is still here, and still being used, shows that it, like shells and shell scripts, still serves a purpose for many users. Vi, short for visual editor, is a modal editor. In vi, there are two modes: insert and command. In insert mode, the text you type gets entered into the file you are editing. In command mode, the keys you type are interpreted as vi commands, short cryptic commands that can have a major effect on your