leper khan posted:

a/o

Hughmoris posted:

Do modern C books, tutorials etc... promote safe C coding or is it really that easy to shoot yourself in the foot?

Dren posted:

Speaking of CMake do I need to buy their book if I really want to get what the hell is going on? The online references are ok but they tell you nothing of best practices.

Build tools always suck. If your build is a sinking boat and build tools are buckets, the very best buckets have a hole in them jussst small enough that you can bail as fast as you take on water.

Khorne posted:

but most people don't know cmake well enough to do that so they just say "gently caress cmake it's awful"

Dawncloack posted:

code:

typedef struct SoundStateKeeper
    {
        unsigned int8_t *currentState; //All of the structs will have this pointer point at the State variable
        unsigned int32_t thisStateValue; //Initialized to zero, used in the first three states
        int32_t (*current_state_func)(* void); 
        void (*state_change)(int32_t); // Only this function can touch State

    }SoundStateKeeper;

Dawncloack posted:

- Should I use the restrict or register keywords on the members of the array ? I think restrict on function pointers doesn't work, but I am a beginner.

Dawncloack posted:

- Is it ok to try and bind an inbuilt function into a function pointer like so ?

code:

SoundStateKeeper[CLEANUP_AND_EXIT]->state_change() = exit(int32_t);

lifg posted:

I learned Vi because one job I worked at gave me an option between Emacs and Vi. I think I flipped a coin.

Dominoes posted:

You also have sections of C coding, like embedded, that are tied to IDEs to make the toolchains more manageable, or provide low-level visual aids for pins, memory etc. That seems like an odd conflation to me, eg of language editor and hardware aid.

xtal posted:

Dominoes posted:

The Witness is my fav single-player game, so Jai's got to be good, right?

ultrafilter posted:

From the terminal explorer.exe $dirname will do what you want. I assume there's nothing weird about invoking it programmatically but Windows so who knows?

bigperm posted:

At some point it seems like all I can think of is a O(n^2) solution and then I look and someone did it all in one line of bash and I feel like an idiot and that's when I usually give up.

Ranzear posted:

Like, what is the double slash divide? Is that actually a thing or just an extraneous escape character being glossed over by everyone?