5. Making The Best Use of C

This node provides advice on how best to use the C language when writing GNU software.

5.1 Formatting Your Source Code
5.2 Commenting Your Work
5.3 Clean Use of C Constructs
5.4 Naming Variables, Functions, and Files
5.5 Portability between System Types		Portability between different operating systems
5.6 Portability between CPUs		Supporting the range of CPU types
5.7 Calling System Functions		Portability and "standard" library functions
5.8 Internationalization		Techniques for internationalization
5.9 Mmap		How you can safely use mmap.