Tutorial by Topics: aliasing

Shell aliases are a simple way to create new commands or to wrap existing commands with code of your own. They somewhat overlap with shell functions, which are however more versatile and should therefore often be preferred. The alias will only be available in the shell where the alias command...

Violations of aliasing rules and of violating the effective type of an object are two different things and should not be confounded. Aliasing is the property of two pointers a and b that refer to the same object, that is that a == b. The effective type of a data object is used by C to de...