Good C Practice

[Christiano Farina Haesbaert]

This is my first post to this group so please take it easy.

I'm no C expert but I've been coding in it for a while, I always ask
myself what's the best place to see/read good C, by good C I mean
projects that use C effectively in a "modern" and concise way.

How can I judge what's a good practice ?
Where can we find it ?

For example, glib2, the low level API for the gtk framework uses C in a
OO fashion, full of callbacks and types, providing loads of layers of
abstraction. But each project is completely different from the other in
this aspect.

So what's the *cool* thing ? the right thing and/or the *wrong* thing ?

[Ian Collins]

Christiano Farina Haesbaert wrote:

This is my first post to this group so please take it easy.

I'm no C expert but I've been coding in it for a while, I always ask
myself what's the best place to see/read good C, by good C I mean
projects that use C effectively in a "modern" and concise way.

How can I judge what's a good practice ?
Where can we find it ?

If you are looking for something recent, manageable and well structured,
have a look at the Solaris ZFS source:

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/source/

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Ian Collins.

[Pilcrow]

On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:59:30 +1200, Ian Collins <ia******@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Christiano Farina Haesbaert wrote:

>This is my first post to this group so please take it easy.

I'm no C expert but I've been coding in it for a while, I always ask
myself what's the best place to see/read good C, by good C I mean
projects that use C effectively in a "modern" and concise way.

How can I judge what's a good practice ?
Where can we find it ?

If you are looking for something recent, manageable and well structured,
have a look at the Solaris ZFS source:

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/source/

Very interesting link. Pardon what may be a stupid question, but how
similar/different is this from linux?

[Ian Collins]

Pilcrow wrote:

On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:59:30 +1200, Ian Collins <ia******@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Christiano Farina Haesbaert wrote:

>>This is my first post to this group so please take it easy.

I'm no C expert but I've been coding in it for a while, I always ask
myself what's the best place to see/read good C, by good C I mean
projects that use C effectively in a "modern" and concise way.

How can I judge what's a good practice ?
Where can we find it ?

If you are looking for something recent, manageable and well structured,
have a look at the Solaris ZFS source:

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/source/

Very interesting link. Pardon what may be a stupid question, but how
similar/different is this from linux?

Years ahead!

--
Ian Collins.

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Pilcrow wrote:

>>http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/source/

Very interesting link. Pardon what may be a stupid question, but how
similar/different is this from linux?

ZFS is a file system, Linux is an operating system kernel.

Erik
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[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Ian Collins wrote:

>Very interesting link. Pardon what may be a stupid question, but how
similar/different is this from linux?

Years ahead!

Saying ZFS (a filesystem) is years ahead of Linux (an OS kernel) is
is somewhat silly.

Saying "The OpenSolaris platform" is years ahead of "The Linux
Platform" is just as silly because there is at least one area
where OpenSolaris is about a decade behind the commonly used
Linux distros.

Erik (who once worked at SUN but never drank the Koolaid)
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[Richard Bos]

Erik de Castro Lopo <no****@mega-nerd.comwrote:

Ian Collins wrote:

Very interesting link. Pardon what may be a stupid question, but how
similar/different is this from linux?

Years ahead!

Saying ZFS (a filesystem) is years ahead of Linux (an OS kernel) is
is somewhat silly.

Not if you're talking about programming style. SunOS was years ahead of
Linux in solidity and style decades ago, and still is.

Richard

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Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

Pilcrow wrote:

>>http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/source/

Very interesting link. Pardon what may be a stupid question, but how
similar/different is this from linux?

ZFS is a file system, Linux is an operating system kernel.

I think OP's question was regarding C programming style.

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[Ian Collins]

Thommy M. Malmström wrote:

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

>Pilcrow wrote:

>>>http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/source/
Very interesting link. Pardon what may be a stupid question, but how
similar/different is this from linux?

ZFS is a file system, Linux is an operating system kernel.

I think OP's question was regarding C programming style.

So were my replies.

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Ian Collins.