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http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ is really good and approachable. It was even recommended in one of the Gatech OS courses.
I recently decided to review operating systems, but my old Tanenbaum textbook from college would take forever to read through especially now that I'm working full time. I've been watching the Berkeley lecture series on Youtube (CS 162) and its been pretty good at covering the main topics concisely.
Can anyone recommend an intermediate to advanced C book? I feel like most C material I've been exposed to in the past lacks what a modern C project should have when it comes to best practices, code organization, build tools (should I use make for this, cmake, where does autotools fit? what about clang vs gcc?), linters (valgrind?), testing, etc. I recognize that much of this falls outside of C, but all of these tools…
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> This book is not about OS dev but rather systems programming: "The Linux Programming Interface", https://nostarch.com/tlpi You can also look through the man pages for free. https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Or if you are adventurous you can play around with syscalls in assembly. https://syscalls.kernelgrok.com/ Also, the examples for TLPI are available online http://man7.org/tlpi/code/online/index.html
Not to pick on you specifically, but I've really grown to hate this type of response to this very common question. Most people new to a topic want an instructional manual or guide, not a technical reference. Man pages and tables of syscalls are decidedly the latter, and therefore primarily intended for people who are already familiar with the topics they cover.
But this thread is about brushing up on OS and C programming. So not novices, but people who are already familiar with the topic.
Can anyone recommend an intermediate to advanced C book? I feel like most C material I've been exposed to in the past lacks what a modern C project should have when it comes to best practices, code organization, build tools (should I use make for this, cmake, where does autotools fit? what about clang vs gcc?), linters (valgrind?), testing, etc. I recognize that much of this falls outside of C, but all of these tools…
Can anyone recommend an intermediate to advanced C book? I feel like most C material I've been exposed to in the past lacks what a modern C project should have when it comes to best practices, code organization, build tools (should I use make for this, cmake, where does autotools fit? what about clang vs gcc?), linters (valgrind?), testing, etc. I recognize that much of this falls outside of C, but all of these tools…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This book is not about OS dev but rather systems programming: "The Linux Programming Interface", https://nostarch.com/tlpi You can also look through the man pages for free. https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Or if you are adventurous you can play around with syscalls in assembly. https://syscalls.kernelgrok.com/ Also, the examples for TLPI are available online http://man7.org/tlpi/code/online/index.html
Not to pick on you specifically, but I've really grown to hate this type of response to this very common question. Most people new to a topic want an instructional manual or guide, not a technical reference. Man pages and tables of syscalls are decidedly the latter, and therefore primarily intended for people who are already familiar with the topics they cover.
what question? this isn't an Ask HN, and partycoder didn't ask a question.
Can anyone recommend an intermediate to advanced C book? I feel like most C material I've been exposed to in the past lacks what a modern C project should have when it comes to best practices, code organization, build tools (should I use make for this, cmake, where does autotools fit? what about clang vs gcc?), linters (valgrind?), testing, etc. I recognize that much of this falls outside of C, but all of these tools…
I really liked this one: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033677.do (21st century C, in case the link is wrong as I’m on my phone now)
Can anyone recommend an intermediate to advanced C book? I feel like most C material I've been exposed to in the past lacks what a modern C project should have when it comes to best practices, code organization, build tools (should I use make for this, cmake, where does autotools fit? what about clang vs gcc?), linters (valgrind?), testing, etc. I recognize that much of this falls outside of C, but all of these tools…
One of the best books: Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (3rd Edition)