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This book is not about OS dev but rather systems programming: "The Linux Programming Interface", https://nostarch.com/tlpi For OS development resources, this wiki is very good: http://wiki.osdev.org
This book is not about OS dev but rather systems programming: "The Linux Programming Interface", https://nostarch.com/tlpi For OS development resources, this wiki is very good: http://wiki.osdev.org
Beej's guides to networking and IPC are excellent.
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…
Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets https://www.amazon.com/dp/0131774298/
A little dated, still lots of relevant knowledge though.
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 enjoyed "Deep C Secrets" as an intermediate C book: Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets https://www.amazon.com/dp/0131774298/ A little dated, still lots of relevant knowledge though.
This book is not about OS dev but rather systems programming: "The Linux Programming Interface", https://nostarch.com/tlpi For OS development resources, this wiki is very good: http://wiki.osdev.org
> 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
But it is also valuable as a refresher since it's a bit hard to memorize the vastness of the Linux API in the long term.
Will recommending my own project get me hell-voted? Cixl is a straight forward 3-stage (parse/compile/eval) interpreter that is designed to be as fast as possible without compromising on simplicity, transparency and flexibility. The codebase has no external dependencies and is currently hovering around 7 kloc including tests and standard library. There are some articles explaining design decisions, but I've been most…
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…
CMake is by far the most convenient build tool I've come across for C so far, the link below will give you an idea of how it looks. I find linters mostly a waste of time , but I run all my tests through valgrind before committing; I don't miss programming in C without valgrind at all; it's also an excellent profiler in combination with KCacheGrind. For testing, simple functions and bit of macro magic on top goes pretty far; C programmers tend to value simplicity, you won't find that many epic unit testing adventure frameworks out there. clang or gcc doesn't really matter, I prefer clang's error messages; and both support GNU extensions, which solve most of the boring problems with coding in C.
https://github.com/basic-gongfu/cixl/blob/master/CMakeLists....
Will recommending my own project get me hell-voted? Cixl is a straight forward 3-stage (parse/compile/eval) interpreter that is designed to be as fast as possible without compromising on simplicity, transparency and flexibility. The codebase has no external dependencies and is currently hovering around 7 kloc including tests and standard library. There are some articles explaining design decisions, but I've been most…
Could make a good show hn post
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Could make a good show hn post
Been there, done that :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16081592
Here, are you saying the Cixl implementation is a useful example of C programming? Or something else?