Writing Solid Code: Microsoft’s Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs

✍ Scribed by Maguire Stephen

• Publisher: Мicrоsоft Press
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 286
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"This book has useful things to say and an engaging way of saying them...a worthwhile addition to the shelves of any full-time programmer." - PC Week. Here, from a former Microsoft developer, are super secrets for developing bug-free C programs. Maguire provides examples of how bugs are caught at Microsoft (using actual case histories) and shows how readers can use these proven programming techniques to get products to market faster.

✦ Table of Contents

FOREWORD Ьу Dave Moore, Director of Development, Microsoft xi
PREFACE xvii
INТRODUCТION xxi

1 А HYPOTHETICAL COМPILER 1
2 ASSERT YOURSELF 13
3 FORTIFY YOUR SUBSYSTEMS 45
4 STEP TНROUGH YOUR СООЕ 75
5 CANDY-MACHINE INTERFACES 87
6 RISKY BUSINESS 111
7 TREACHERIES OF ТНЕ TRADE 145
8 ТНЕ RE5T 15 ATTITUDE 171

EPILOGUE WНERE Do You Go FROM HERE? 195
APPENDIX А CODING CHECKLISТS 197
APPENDIX В MEMORY LOGGING ROUТINE5 203
APPENDIX С AN5WERS 213
REFERENCE5 245
INDEX 247