Writing a C library, intro, conclusion and errata

This is a series of blog-posts about best practices for writing C libraries. See below for each part and the topics covered.

Table of contents

The entire series about best practices for writing C libraries covered 15 topics and was written over five parts posted over the course of approximately one week.

• Part one
  • Base libraries
  • Library initialization and shutdown
  • Memory management
  • Multiple threads and processes
• Part two
  • Event handling and the main loop
  • Synchronous and asynchronous I/O
  • Modularity and namespaces
• Part three
  • Error handling
  • Encapsulation and OO design
• Part four
  • Helpers and daemons
  • Testing
• Part five
  • API design
  • Documentation
  • Language bindings
  • ABI, API and versioning
• [...]

An interesting series of articles on the nuances of writing a C library. There's a whole section of topics that are not discussed in detail but they too have some very interesting links and thoughts. Definitely a good and worthy read.

URL: http://davidz25.blogspot.com/2011/07/writing-c-library-intro-conclusion-and.html

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