Writing Bug-Free C Code for Windows

Author(s) : Jerry Jongerius
Publication date : Jan 1995
ISBN : 0-131-83898-9
Publisher : Prentice Hall

Book exceprts:

Writing Bug-Free C Code for Windows describes an alternate class methodology that provides complete data hiding and fault- tolerant run-time type checking of objects in C programs. With it, you will produce code that contains fewer bugs.

The class methodology helps to prevent bugs by making it easier to write C code. It does this by eliminating data structures (class declarations) from include files, which makes a project easier to understand (because there is not as much global information), which makes it easier to write C code, which helps to eliminate bugs. This class methodology, which uses private class declarations, is different from C++, which uses public class declarations.

The class methodology helps detect bugs by providing for both compile- time and run-time type checking of pointers (handles) to class objects. This run-time type checking catches a lot of bugs for you since invalid object handles (the cause of a lot of bugs) are automatically detected and reported.

In the end, this book is all about the techniques used to write virtually bug-free code. You may not agree with 100 percent of the techniques and that is OK and only fair, since every programmer has his or her own style.

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