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CHAPTER?. PREFACE

Preface

low-cost microcontrollers, the choice is very limited: C, C++ or assembly language. And as it seems in the near future, there

"Pure C" should be still considered, a huge number of large programs are still developed in it, e.g. Linux kernel, Windows

NTOSlinekernels,OracleRDBMS,etc.

This notes collections is not intended for beginners, neither for experts, it is rather for those who wants to fresh their C/C++

CHAPTER?. COMMONFORCANDC++

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CommonforCandC++

Header files are an interface description, a documentation in some sense. It is very convenient to work with the code in one

editor window while having header files in another window for reference. It can be said it is advisable to make header files

∙Declarationdeclares name/type of variable or name and argument types and also returning value type of function or

method. Declarations are usually enlisted in the header .h or .hpp-files, so the compiler while compiling individual .c

Datatypesarealsodeclared.

∙Definitiondefines a value of (usually global) variable or a body of function/method. It is usually take place in the indi-

Localvariabledeclarations

Itwasalsonotpossibletodeclarecounteror

Iterator

ThenewC??(

staticIftheglobalvariables(orfunctions)aredeclaredasstatic,itsscopeislimitedbycurrentfile. However,localvariables

inside a functionmay also be declaredasstatic, then thisvariable will be global insteadof local, but its scopewill be limited

Forexample:void fn(...)

As it is well-known, in the header files (headers) function declarations are usually present, i.e., function names, arguments

andtypes,returningtype,butnofunctionbodies. Thisisdoneforthecompilersoitwillhaveinformation,whatitisworking

The same can be done for types. In order not to include with the help of #include the file with a class definitions into the

Of course, one should include the file if one have intention to work with variables ofcomplextype and specific structure

fields. But if you declare your functions using the structure in other header file, you may not include my_complex.h there,

Frequentcaveats

Thisoneiscorrect:char *p1, *p2;

∙Protection from errors: in case of global const-variable, the process will crash while attempting to write to it due to

∙Optimization: thecompilerconsideringtheelementisalwaysread-only,maygeneratefastercodeforusingit.

It is highly advisable to declare all function arguments which you do not plan to modify as const. For example, the

strcmp()functionischangingnothingintheinputarguments,sotheyarebothusuallydeclaredasconst. Thestrcat()chang-

ing nothing in the second argument, but changing something in the first, so it is usually declared with aconstin the second

Datatypes

intTheintusually occupies the same number of bits as general purpose CPU registers. However, in the x??-??, for better

BothintheMSVCandGCC,booloccupies?byte.

ThereisasynonymoustotheinttypeinWindowsAPI -BOOL.

However, in the sense of the code self-documenting, if you declare a variable which will not be assigned to a negative

value, including array indices, perhaps, unsigned type is better. For example,unsignedtype is o?en used in LLVM at the

Asasimpleexample:#define MAX_BUFFER_SIZE 1024

Ifsizewill be, for example,-1, then malloc() will be called with an argument0xffffffff(it is4294967295). Of course,

char or uint?_t instead of int?One may think that is a value will always be in0..100limits, then it is not necessary to

allocatethewhole??-bitint,smallertypesmaybeenoughlikecharorunsignedchar. Besides,itwillrequirelessmemory.

It is not so. Because of aligning by ?-bytes border (or by ?-bytes border in ??-bit architectures), the variables declared

Specific bytes processing may be more "expensive" and slower then processing ??-bit or ??-bit values because

Ontheotherhand,whichtypesarebettersuitedforastructures? Thisisaquestionofseekingbalancebetweenspeedand

compactness. Ontheonehand,onemayusecharforasmallvariables,flags,bitfields,enums,etc,butoneshouldnotforget

thataccesstothesevariableswillbeslower. Ontheotherhand,iftoassigninttoeachvariables,workingwithastructurewill

Forexample:?

GNUCompilerCollection

?The data type ofcharis not fixed in the standard, but inGC Cand MSV Cit is e xactlysigned type b ydef ault.In c anbe chang edin the GC Cb yadding k ey

x??-??orAMD??Onthenew??-bitx??CPUs,theint/unsignedintisstill??-bit,perhaps,forcompatibility. Soifoneneed

Butpointers,ofcourse,has??-bitwidth.

typedefintroducessynonymforadatatype. Itiso?enusedforstructures,forthereasonnottowritestructeachtimebefore

Nevertheless,typedefcanbealsousednotonlyforstructures,butalsoforusualintegraltypeslike:typedef int age;

For example, thetime_t(The time in the UNIX time format, e.g. what the localtime() returns), it is in fact ??-bit number,

A preprocessor directive#definemay be used here (many do so), but it is worse in the sense of errors handling during

Stringdeclarations

The di?erence between LF and CR is that in old dot-matrix printers LF mean line feed by one line down, and CR carriage

IntheDOSandthenWindows -CR+LF.

Thestringdefinedasmulti-stringNotwidelyknownCfeature,longstringscanbedefinedas:const char* long_line="line 1"

Itissomewhatresembling"heredocument"

Itissometimesusefultoinsertthemrightintoafunctioncall,inordertohaveavisualnoteaboutmeaningofanargument:f (val1, /* a very special flag! */ false, /* another special flag here */ true);