Samples for Best Practices for C Programming

This repository contains the examples for my online video course: [Best Practices for C Programming].

I use a fake project FooBar to show the good or bad code.

Table of Contents

• Source Tree of FooBar
• Current Status
• Coding Style
  • Indentation
  • Printing messages
  • Allocating memory
• Building
  • Commands
• Authors and Contributors
• License

Source Tree of FooBar

FooBar contains the skeleton of a typical C library project:

• The building system based on CMake.
• The headers and source files of the library.
• The unit test programs based on gtest.
• Some samples for the usage of the APIs.

The source tree of FooBar is illustrated as follow:

• docs/: The lecture slides of this course.
• src/foobar/include/: The global header files.
• src/foobar/include/private: The internal header files.
• src/foobar/utils/: Some basic and common utilities.
• src/foobar/foo/: The module of Foo.
• src/foobar/bar/: The module of Bar.
• src/foobar/xxx/: The module of XXX.
• src/foobar/ports/: The ports for different platforms, such as a POSIX-compliant systems or Windows.
• src/foobar/bindings/: The bindings for Python, Lua, and other programming languages.
• src/wtf/: The simplified WTF (Web Template Framework) from WebKit.
• src/cmake/: The cmake modules.
• src/third-party/: The third-party libraries, such as gtest.
• src/test/: The unit test programs.
• tools/: Some tools for easy development.
• examples/: The examples using the library.

For using this project as a template for another project, please read the following documents:

• Usage in Chinese.

Current Status

This project was launched in Sept. 2021.

We welcome anybody to take part in the development and contribute your effort!

For the community conduct, please refer to Code of Conduct.

Coding Style

We mainly follow Linux Kernel Coding Style, with the following exceptions.

Indentation

We always use four spaces for indentation.

Printing messages

Allocating memory

Building

Commands

To build the source on Linux:

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake .. -DPORT=Linux
$ make

To build the source on macOS:

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake .. -DPORT=Mac
$ make

Authors and Contributors

• Vincent Wei

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright © 2021 FMSoft (https://www.fmsoft.cn).

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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