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Posts by Lundin
The site is called Software Development, not "Applications". Meaning programming. On-topic: Questions about different behavior of web browsers in the context of web application programming. Questi...
Software design in itself has always been on-topic, as per https://software.codidact.com/help/on-topic. As for system design for a given purpose, I think it is fine within reason. Contrary to popu...
Assuming that there are no alignment problems between the two pointer types (impl-defined), the code is otherwise well-defined. As per the quoted 6.3.2.3 C allows pretty much any form of wild and c...
Yes it is fine and probably encouraged even. I have written several self-answered Q&A here and they were mostly well-received. They aren't all that easy to write though, especially getting the ...
I don't think GNU can be used as a stand-alone tag. Apart from the OS, GNU is also a tool collection of various programs, many used for programming, making is a very ambiguous tag which can't stan...
Syntax-wise it is a function specifier and may in theory appear everywhere where inline (or rather the syntax item function-specifier:) can appear, since the standard doesn't say otherwise. Though ...
As with anything computer science-related that dates back to the 1960s and 70s, things just happened at a whim. Everything was new and highly experimental back then. Nobody knew how to write or des...
To use the identifier Node without typing struct Node, you must use a typedef: typedef struct Node{ // this here is a stuct tag int data; struct Node* next; // this has to be struct Node...
Categories should be used when the posting rules for certain types of question differ. For example a debugging question posted below Q&A should have a minimal, relevant example. Whereas a code ...
I propose that we add the following: Off-topic Questions about code golf, programming puzzles and challenges. Please use Code Golf instead.
It's an unfortunate analogy. Apart from being confusing, it does indeed assume some basic electronics knowledge. In electronics a short circuit (or the common jargon "a short") does not necessarily...
Many languages support the concept of functors or function objects which are classes only containing a method/member function. Most notably C++ STL was designed around this - whenever you declare ...
Bugs: int **range = 0; should be int *range; and then call the function like ft_ultimate_range(&range, min, max);. That's the whole reason the parameter is pointer-to-pointer, so that you c...
I just noticed that I'm not getting code formatting in the preview window when I write an answer or make an edit. This is very useful to have. Not sure if it's a bug so I'm posting this as a featu...
TL;DR The initialization of the variables a and b in your question are indeterminately sequenced in relation to each other. The initialization order is not guaranteed between them. The initiali...
Consider using look-up tables to increase execution speed (at the cost of some 200 bytes .rodata use). For example this: static const char specifiers[] = "diouxaefgcspAEFGX"; could be replaced wit...
On-topic questions dealing with how to write software documentation I propose that a note about tool use is added: On-topic questions dealing with how to write software documentation or how t...
General/program design: I would have expected a public header file with the API for the whole thing, rather than having some main() test case calling static functions from the same file. Sure,...
I don't think there are any formal names for the various versions you list. First of all, please note that output in a programming context most often refers to printing something on a screen or to...
It is a common mistake is to mix up the concepts of operator precedence and order of evaluation. Beginner classes and books often address the former in detail, but forget to mention the latter at a...
p is assigned a value and then it becomes indeterminate when the pointed at object has reached the end of its lifetime (C17 6.2.4). Pointers may have trap representations (C17 6.2.6.1/5) and in ca...
This question was of very poor quality and should have been closed. I closed it but someone disagreed, for reasons unknown. I'm not sure if it's an actual algorithm question or just a request for f...
Generally speaking, comparison callback functions in C are often implemented to return an integer lesser than zero, equal to zero or greater than zero - depending on if the first object is lesser t...
We rather need to make a close reason for every kind of off-topic reason. In this specific case, the reason could for example be Purely subjective question rather than the old "primarily opinion-ba...
Some new tag "software practices" just popped up, no wiki. What's the purpose of this tag and how is it useful? What exactly in software development is not "software practices"? Seems quite superfl...
