Best Practices for Programming in C

Best practices for programming in C Introduction This article has been written with the needs of the developer in mind. We have put together a set of guidelines that have served us well as developers and consultants over the years, and we offer these as suggestions that may help you in your job. You may not agree with all of them but our hope is you would like some of them and use them in your programming or porting projects. Back to top Styles and Guidelines Use a source code style that makes the code readable and consistent. Unless you have a group code style or a style of your own, you could use a style similar to the Kernighan and Ritchie style used by a vast majority of C programmers. Taken to an extreme, however, it's possible to end up with something like this: int i;main(){for(;i["]<i;++i){--i;}"];read('-'-'-',i+++"hell\ o, world!\n",'/'/'/'));}read(j,i,p){write(j/p+p,i---j,i/i); --Dishonorable mention, Obfuscated C Code Contest, 1984. Author requested anonymity. It is common to see the main routine defined as main(). The ANSI way of writing this is int main(void) (if there are is no interest in the command line arguments) or as int main( int argc, char **argv ). Pre-ANSI compilers would omit the void declaration, or list the variable names and follow with their declarations. Whitespace

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Back to topStyles and Guidelines Use a source code style that makes the code readable and consistent. Unless you have a group code style or a style of your own, you could use a style similar to the Kernighan and Ritchie style used by a vast majority of C programmers. Taken to an extreme, however, it's possible to end up with something like this: int i;main(){for(;i["]