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Re: Best book on C gotchas and best practices?

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Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> writes:
> 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).

It's not a constraint violation. It's probably undefined behavior.

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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? Andreas Perstinger <andipersti@gmail.com> - 2013-07-31 13:47 +0200
    Re: Best book on C gotchas and best practices? Chicken McNuggets <chicken@mcnuggets.com> - 2013-07-31 12:56 +0100
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        Re: Best book on C gotchas and best practices? David Thompson <dave.thompson2@verizon.net> - 2013-08-04 22:26 -0400
  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
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