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Re: Any suggestions for Linux Beginners stepping to Linux kernel.

From Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com>
Newsgroups comp.unix.programmer
Subject Re: Any suggestions for Linux Beginners stepping to Linux kernel.
Date 2011-09-06 22:11 +0100
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Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes:
> On 09/ 7/11 12:15 AM, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
>> Ian Collins<ian-news@hotmail.com>  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.

'Worrying about portability' without portability being a requirement
is a bad habit because it means 'doing more work now because of
$something which might happen in future'.

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Any suggestions for Linux Beginners stepping to Linux kernel. Stanley Rice <heconghui@gmail.com> - 2011-09-06 00:41 -0700
  Re: Any suggestions for Linux Beginners stepping to Linux kernel. Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-06 22:00 +1200
    Re: Any suggestions for Linux Beginners stepping to Linux kernel. Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-09-06 13:15 +0100
      Re: Any suggestions for Linux Beginners stepping to Linux kernel. Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-07 08:44 +1200
        Re: Any suggestions for Linux Beginners stepping to Linux kernel. Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-09-06 22:11 +0100
          Re: Any suggestions for Linux Beginners stepping to Linux kernel. Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-07 09:18 +1200
            Re: Any suggestions for Linux Beginners stepping to Linux kernel. Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-09-07 14:22 +0100
    Re: Any suggestions for Linux Beginners stepping to Linux kernel. Stanley Rice <heconghui@gmail.com> - 2011-09-07 01:03 -0700
  Re: Any suggestions for Linux Beginners stepping to Linux kernel. Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-09-06 13:11 +0100
    Re: Any suggestions for Linux Beginners stepping to Linux kernel. Stanley Rice <heconghui@gmail.com> - 2011-09-07 01:11 -0700
      Re: Any suggestions for Linux Beginners stepping to Linux kernel. "onixie@gmail.com" <onixie@gmail.com> - 2011-09-07 22:09 -0700
        Re: Any suggestions for Linux Beginners stepping to Linux kernel. Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-09-08 20:16 +0100
  Re: Any suggestions for Linux Beginners stepping to Linux kernel. Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org> - 2011-09-06 12:50 +0000
  Re: Any suggestions for Linux Beginners stepping to Linux kernel. Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2011-09-06 13:07 -0400
    Re: Any suggestions for Linux Beginners stepping to Linux kernel. Stanley Rice <heconghui@gmail.com> - 2011-09-07 01:26 -0700
      Re: Any suggestions for Linux Beginners stepping to Linux kernel. "onixie@gmail.com" <onixie@gmail.com> - 2011-09-07 22:01 -0700

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