[Ukfreebsd] Notes from last nights meeting

[Sevan Janiyan]

On 12/02/2016 12:51, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 12 Feb 2016, at 12:37, Sevan Janiyan <venture37 at geeklan.co.uk>
> wrote:
>> 
>> Understanding and Using C Pointers 
>> http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028000.do
> 
> This sounded interesting, so I read the free sample big.  If the rest
> of the book is in the same vein, then I would strongly recommend that
> people avoid this book.  The amount of undefined /
> implementation-define behaviour that the early examples rely on is
> staggering, and some of the advice is actively bad (e.g. it’s fine to
> use 0 instead of NULL - this is true in most contexts, but it relies
> on implicit conversion and you have to be very careful to add
> explicit conversion in cases where implicit conversion will not
> happen, such as when calling a variadic function: passing 0 on a
> 64-bit system as a null terminator to a variadic function will likely
> cause stack corruption).
> 
> Some of what he says is just perplexing, such as 'A pointer to void
> will never be equal to another pointer.’
> 
> David

Thanks for the heads up, David :)
Any recommended titles on the subject of how not to shoot yourself in
the foot, when using pointers?


Sevan