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Re: Best book on C gotchas and best practices?

From Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c.moderated
Subject Re: Best book on C gotchas and best practices?
Date 2013-07-31 21:21 -0500
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 7/30/2013 10:57 PM, Chicken McNuggets wrote:
> I'm pretty up to speed with C but I still feel there are areas that I
> make mistakes in my design and implementation. Would anyone recommend
> the best book that deals with these kinds of issues? Obviously I already
> have K&R, and the C11 standard document for reference but I was looking
> for something a bit more focused on how to avoid common mistakes or
> anti-patterns.

     Andrew Koenig's "C Traps and Pitfalls" is worth a lukewarm
recommendation.  "Lukewarm" for two reasons:

     - First and more important, it's aimed at people making the
       transition from pre-Standard to ANSI C, and is nowadays
       rather dated.

     - Second and less important, it goes out of its way to say
       that the printf() specifier "%8%" is well-defined (even in
       the original ANSI Standard it was a constraint violation).

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Best book on C gotchas and best practices? Chicken McNuggets <chicken@mcnuggets.com> - 2013-07-30 21:57 -0500
  Re: Best book on C gotchas and best practices? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-07-31 21:21 -0500
    Re: Best book on C gotchas and best practices? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2013-08-01 12:57 -0500
      Re: Best book on C gotchas and best practices? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-08-01 21:06 -0500
  Re: Best book on C gotchas and best practices? ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2013-07-31 21:22 -0500
  Re: Best book on C gotchas and best practices? Chris Riesbeck <Chris.Riesbeck@gmail.com> - 2013-07-31 21:23 -0500
  Re: Best book on C gotchas and best practices? "Fred J. Tydeman" <tydeman.consulting@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-08-05 11:24 -0500

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