Compiling in Emacs

I use Emacs for development in C. I was trying out some algorithms and I had used some functions from math.h. I had included the header of course. However, when I wanted to compile I knew I would have to use the -lm flag to include math.h in the compilation. I use M-x compile for compilation. It usually asks me to enter the name of the executable to be built. In that same line, I added the CFLAGS=-lm part to the end of that line and the compilation worked fine. So instead of

make -k application

my compilation command looked like the following.

make -k application CFLAGS=-lm

Do not save VBS file in UTF8 encoding

Recently, I had to run a VB script as suggested here. I do not have much experience on Windows; but I often keep my source code in utf8. I also have my IDE set to it. So, when I saved the script I opted for utf8. However, when I ran the script, I got a strange error. Since, I had opted specifically for utf8 overriding the default, I tried saving in the default character encoding, i.e. ASCII and the script ran fine. Reading about it, I can see that ASCII and utf-16 are supported. So, lesson learned: do not use utf8 on windows.