An Introduction to GCC by Brian Gough

This book is a beginner's guide on GCC and covers the topic comprehensively. The topics I like most are Compilation options, optimization and tools section. Its amazing that a high quality tool, like this, developed by open source community. Great book and a great tool!

Recommended option: gcc -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -Wconversion -Wshadow -Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings
To core dump: ulimit -c unlimited
GDB command: gdb a.out core
Optimization level: -O0 to -O3
Verbose debugging: gcc -v
Prevent excessive memory usage: ulimit -v limit
Prevent excessive memory usage soft limit : ulimit -S -v limit
GNU archiver to create: ar cr
GNU archiver to list .o: ar t
Profiler gprof: gcc -pg file.c, gprof a.out
Code coverage gcov: gcc -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage cov.c, gcov cov.c
Tool-chain:
  Preprocessing: cpp
                           gcc --save-temps
  To assembly:  gcc -S
  Assembly to machine: as file.s -o file.o
  Linker: ld -dynamic-linker

To find details of a.out: file a.out
Examining symbol table: nm a.out
Find dynamically linked libraries: ldd a.out

The witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho

This is the story of a witch and her making. It’s the transcript of her story from people she knew. Through her, the author introduced more loving feminine God. And finally she vanished to obscurity.

Madina Arabic Reader Book 1 by Dr V Abdur Rahim

Please find the notes here https://shine-notes.blogspot.com/2019/12/madina-arabic-reader-book-1-by-dr-v.html?m=1
This is a good book to learn Arabic.

The Linux Command Line by William Shotts

That was a journey through Linux command line with a good dose of bash programming. Thoroughly enjoyed the journey. Rough notes here

The white tiger by Aravind Adiga

Story of a man from servant class. It’s the story a man from “darkness” - a remote village from north India. It’s the story of a man who is eternally bonded to their rich master. And the way he sees the world - his village, small town, big city, it’s shopping mall. And the way he unshackled the chain of servitude.

Dilris Ertugrul

Dilris Ertugrul is a five season turkish tv serial which is based on life of Ertugrul who was a turkish leader lived in 13th century. He was the leader or Bey of Kayi tribe in Turkey and he strived for a state based on Islamic principles and justice system. Some of the main characters are Suleyman Shah - father and former leader, Haymana - mother, Gundoldu, Sugertekin and Dundar - brothers, Halime Sultan - wife, Turgut, Bamsi and Dogan - blood brothers, Aliyar bey, Aslahan, Ilbilige - next wife.

The Home Front: Life in America During World War II

Another audible original!

It’s an 8 hours audiobook which examined a period from post Great Depression to early 1950s. Pearl Harbor, latest radio technology, women at work, segregation, war industry, racial tensions, post war readjustment, undiagnosed PTSD and more! Thoroughly enjoyed!