Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: Any suggestions for Linux Beginners stepping to Linux kernel. Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:44:52 +1200 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <9cnf25F72aU6@mid.individual.net> References: <2a0bf9fc-e9d7-4db6-b8aa-f6695465bea7@m3g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <9cm9amF72aU4@mid.individual.net> <87mxehq32g.fsf@sapphire.mobileactivedefense.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net G8C41U70X7tEdMYDSOsv0gkI8ObmuBHhRdWaBD9th5UziA6bWx Cancel-Lock: sha1:UYG8jftpWSval/uoWY/3n6O3TsM= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20101021 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 In-Reply-To: <87mxehq32g.fsf@sapphire.mobileactivedefense.com> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.unix.programmer:1224 On 09/ 7/11 12:15 AM, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Ian Collins writes: > > [...] > >> Kernel code is not a good source to study C, unless you want to >> pick up bad habits early. > > Care to name some of these bad habits, together with an explanation > why you consider them to be bad habits? Writing gcc specific code. -- Ian Collins