5 Making The Best Use of C

This chapter provides advice on how best to use the C language when writing GNU software.

• Formatting: Formatting Your Source Code
• Comments: Commenting Your Work
• Syntactic Conventions: Clean Use of C Constructs
• Names: Naming Variables, Functions, and Files
• System Portability: Portability between different operating systems
• CPU Portability: Supporting the range of CPU types
• System Functions: Portability and ``standard'' library functions
• Internationalization: Techniques for internationalization
• Character Set: Use ASCII by default.
• Quote Characters: Use `...' in the C locale.
• Mmap: How you can safely use mmap.