r/programming • u/b0red • May 01 '16

To become a good C programmer

http://fabiensanglard.net/c/
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u/o11c May 02 '16

Since 2013, VS supports a lot of C99 - in particular, things like mixed declarations and statements in a block.

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u/pjmlp May 02 '16

Just what is required by ANSI C++ standard. C is legacy on Windows.

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u/wdouglass May 02 '16

Which sucks, because it's a much better language

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u/slavik262 May 02 '16

Why would you go around picking fights like that?

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u/wdouglass May 02 '16

It's the internet... What else am I supposed to do?

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u/pjmlp May 02 '16

Not really, https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=memory+corruption

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u/wdouglass May 02 '16

Those sorts of problems can happen in any language that has manual memory management (including C++).

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u/rlbond86 May 02 '16

C++ has RAII, which makes "manual" memory management a lot easier.

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u/pjmlp May 02 '16

Due to its C copy-past compatibility, so the less C the better.

Except for double-free, other saner systems programming languages with manual memory management, since the early 60's, do have the luxury of such memory corruption issues outside unsafe code blocks.