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Torvalds Has It With "-Wstringop-overflow" On GCC Due To Kernel Breakage

Phoronix - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 16:00
One of the new features for Linux 6.8 that was merged late was enabling the -Wstringop-overflow compiler option to warn about possible buffer overflows in cases where the compiler can detect such possible overflows at compile-time. While it's nice in theory, issues on GCC has led Linus Torvalds to disabling this compiler option as of now Linux 6.8...

SDL 2.30 Released With New API Additions For Steam Use

Phoronix - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 13:00
While all major feature development for the Simple DirectMedia Layer "SDL" is currently focused on SDL 3.0 for this library commonly used by cross-platform games for various hardware/software abstractions, SDL 2.30 released on Thursday as a new point release in the SDL2 series...

Steam On Linux Falls Short Of 2% For January, AMD CPU Adoption On Linux Hits 70.5%

Phoronix - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 08:44
With the start of a new month comes the Steam Survey results for the month prior. For January 2024, the reported Steam on Linux marketshare continued falling just short of the 2% threshold...

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