Episode 414: Jens Gustedt on Modern C

Jens Gustedt, author of the Modern C book, former co-editor of the C standard document ISO/IEC 9899:2018 and a senior scientist at the French National Institute for Computer Science and Control (INRIA) discuss what is classed as Modern C, what is legacy C and what has changed in the past 50 years in the C world. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Gustedt about where C came from, why it was standardized, Threads (the modern way), memory management, programmers vs compilers, security coding, casting, ecosystems, embedded C, The Standard Library, a beautiful clean small c library called Musl, gcc, clang, Intel, variable best practices and what you should do in your C career as a software engineer.

Related Links

• 371 – Howard Chu On the Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB) (lowest level of programming for speed – C)
• 61 – Internals of GCC
• 363 – Jonathan Boccara on Understanding Legacy Code
• Four steps to teaching C programming
• A Web Service for C Programming Learning and Teaching
• Twitter, https://twitter.com/gustedt
• Musl libc
• C wiki on standard
• Official Book (preferred)
• Free Book
• Blog
• Book Blog
• New C Spec
• Bio

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