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Debugging information in GCC preprocessor output [migrated]

I was inspecting the preprocessed output generated by GCC, and I see a lot of these in the .i file that I generated using the -save-temps flag: # 8 "/usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/gnu/stubs.h" 2 3 4 ...
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I can not get my Realtek 8723 driver source compiled

I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13. WLAN won't work out of box with fedora 18. So I googled around and found this 2 links: ...
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USB-Serial Driver(Exar Xr21v1414) Run Error

I'm currently trying to run the bellow driver in linux-3.8.3 on Exar xr21v1414 http://www.exar.com/connectivity/uart-and-bridging-solutions/usb-uarts/xr21v1410, but when i install the driver ...
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Make Completion Progress Script

Any time I'm executing a build process that takes several hours, I inevitably stare at my terminal and wonder, "how much longer?" Sometimes, I manually pick up on some pathname echoed to the terminal ...
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'dereferencing pointer to incomplete type' in compiling FreeBSD 4.2 custom system call - FreeBSD [closed]

I already posted this question on Stack overflow, but no luck there: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14784525/dereferencing-pointer-to-incomplete-type-in-compiling-freebsd-custom-system-caF I am ...
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USB Driver Compilation Error

I'm currently trying to compile a Linux USB UART driver, which is provided here: http://www.exar.com/connectivity/uart-and-bridging-solutions/usb-uarts/xr21v1410 The driver consists of 2 header files ...
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IP_TRANSPARENT missing from glibc headers

I'm trying to use the IP_TRANSPARENT declaration. I am using debian 6.0.5. IP_TRANSPARENT is only defined in linux/in.h however it conflicts with netinet/in.h. In centos for example, IP_TRANSPARENT is ...
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How to compile a c program without leaving the editor?

I am using vim editor on Linux mint. I want to know if there is any way to compile c program without leaving the editor.
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Why is FreeBSD deprecating GCC in favor of Clang/LLVM?

So I was surfing the net and stumbled upon this article. It basically states that FreeBSD, starting from Version 10 and above will deprecate GCC in favor of Clang/LLVM. From what I have seen around ...
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Does optimizing for size reduce runtime memory usage as well as binary size?

Does optimizing for size with gcc -Os only reduce the binary size of a program, or does it reduce its runtime memory usage as well? I know what exactly the results are depend on the specific code, but ...
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Why would one want to compile multiple .cpp files to the same executable?

Why would you do g++ -Wall -I/usr/local/include/thrift *.cpp -lthrift -o something instead of: g++ -Wall -I/usr/local/include/thrift -c Something.cpp -o something.o g++ -Wall ...