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C Notes Links Principles for C programming Understanding pointers c4 - C in four functions. (HN )Project Based Tutorials in C One year of C (2018) https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/02/one-year-of-c.html Building C programs Tiny Garbage Collector - Tiny Garbage Collector for C.Awesome C - Curated list of awesome C frameworks, libraries, resources and other shiny things.Awesome C 2 9cc small C compiler picol, a Tcl interpreter in 550 lines of C code (2007) Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative C/C++ Garbage Collector (libgc, bdwgc, boehm-gc) Clang documentation libaco - Blazing fast and lightweight C asymmetric coroutine library.C-Reduce - Tool that takes a large C or C++ program that has a property of interest (such as triggering a compiler bug) and automatically produces a much smaller C/C++ program that has the same property.bic - C interpreter and API explorer. (HN )clang - Compiler front-end for the C family of languages (C, C++, Objective-C, and Objective-C++) which is built as part of the LLVM compiler infrastructure project.rcc - C compiler written in Rust, with a focus on good error messages.Post modern C tooling (2019) Small C Compilers (HN )Learn C and C++ Programming Small C Compiler - Intended to support all C11 language features while keeping the code as small and simple as possible.All Algorithms implemented in C CodeChecker - Analyzer tooling, defect database and viewer extension for the Clang Static Analyzer and Clang Tidy.Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C (HN )gc - Simple, zero-dependency garbage collection for C. (HN )To become a good C programmer (HN )Development of the C Language (1993) (Lobsters ) (PDF )Ask HN: How do I learn C properly? (2020) HN: Static Analysis in GCC 10 (2020) “C is not how the computer works” can lead to inefficient code (2019) (HN )Write a C interpreter - Write a simple interpreter of C. Inspired by c4 and largely based on it..tree-sitter-c - C grammar for tree-sitter. Adapted from this C99 grammar.Awesome Clang Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C (2020) Embedding Binary Objects in C (HN )Implementing a LLVM Micro C compiler in Haskell (HN )Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012) Awesome C Verified sequential malloc/free (HN )Fat pointers in C using libcello (HN )Embracing modularity with Meson (2020) Some Were Meant for C - The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language (2017) (Lobsters ) (HN )Developing a programming language in C (2020) Mass (Meta Assembly) Language - Compiler for a new language focusing on compile-time execution and no LLVM dependency.Implementing simple cooperative threads in C (2020) (HN )c2go - Tool for transpiling C to Go.cpkg - Build tool for C with a particular emphasis on cross compilation. It is configured using Dhall.C Internals (HN )C-Reduce - Tool that takes a large C or C++ program that has a property of interest (such as triggering a compiler bug) and automatically produces a much smaller C/C++ program that has the same property. (Web )C-Vise - Super-parallel Python port of the C-Reduce.C implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe in a single call to printf (HN ) (Reddit )How the most upvoted C question was another question (2020) (Lobsters )LLDB Debugger - Next generation, high-performance debugger.Dumbindent: When 93% of the Time was Spent in Clang-Format (2020) (Lobsters )C is archaic (2019) Linux kernel coding style in C Constantine - Toy project to learn how to write Clang plugin.Tiny C Compiler (HN )C performance mystery: delete unused string constant (2020) C's main() is one of the places where Unix's user and kernel APIs differ (Lobsters )Standard C loop idioms (2020) Why the C Language Will Never Stop You from Making Mistakes (2020) Can we do better than our C compiler? (HN )Cyclone - Safe dialect of C.C Code Archive Network (Code )do {...} while (0) in macros (2014) (Lobsters )Simple C Compiler Verifiable C (2020) Rust-style futures in C (2020) The problem with C compatibility in C++ (2020) (Lobsters ) (HN )Essential C (2003) (HN ) (HN )Modern C (HN ) (Lobsters )C FAQ Massacring C Pointers (2018) (HN ) (Lobsters )C’s Biggest Mistake (2009) (Lobsters )Defer Reference Implementation for C (HN )Chibicc - Small C Compiler. (HN )Loading CSV File at the Speed Limit of the NVMe Storage (2020) (Lobsters )What Makes C Hard to Compile (2020) malloc as a service (2020) The Lemon Parser Generator - LALR parser generator for C.How Does a C Debugger Work? (2014) (HN )SheLLVM - Collection of LLVM transform and analysis passes to write shellcode in regular C.Defining C macros the right way (2020) (Lobsters )Hundred year mistakes (2020) (Lobsters )MazuCC - Minimalist C compiler with x86_64 code generation.shecc - Self-hosting and educational C compiler.AMaCC - Small C Compiler generating ELF executable Arm architecture, supporting JIT execution.How to C (as of 2016) Demystifying malloc (2020) Past, Present and Future of Effective C (2020) C compiler written in Go ZetZ - Formally Verified Dialect of C. (Article )Editing the C Standard (2020) (HN )C Is Not Dependency Free (2020) Best aspects of C language (2020) (HN ) (Lobsters )C3 Language Compiler - C3 is a C-like language trying to be "an incremental improvement over C" rather than a whole new language. (HN )Coccinelle - Allows programmers to easily write some complex style-preserving source-to-source transformations on C source code, like for instance to perform some refactorings.rcc - Basic c compiler written in rust.Writing a C Compiler (2017) (Code )What is your favorite C programming trick? (HN )Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained (HN )DragonFFI - C Foreign Function Interface (FFI) library written in C++ and based on Clang/LLV.PureCTypes - Pure-python package to describe portable C structures.Now you C me, now you don't, part two: exploiting the in-between (2020) Data Structures and Algorithms in C (implementations and notes) Getting started with C programming a lightning-fast start for absolute beginners (2020) (HN )C-Toy - Interactive C coding environment.cproc - C11 compiler using QBE as a backend. (HN )Cosmopolitan Libc - Build-once run-anywhere C library. (Code ) (HN ) (HN 2 ) (HN 3 ) (Actually Portable Executable ) (Lobsters )Learn C - Free Interactive C Tutorial.Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019) (HN )CxGo - Tool for translating C source code to Go.Wanager - Package manager and project manager for the C & C++ programming languages.B. Harvey's Intro to C (2007) lcc - Retargetable Compiler for ANSI C. (Web )C Compiler/Parser written in Rust c2goasm - C to Go Assembly.List of C static analysis tools Q3VM - Single file (vm.c) bytecode virtual machine/interpreter for C-language input.How does Clang 2.7 hold up in 2021? (HN )Developing mathematical software in C (2021) POSIX Threads Programming (HN )Beej's Guide to C Programming (Code ) (PDF ) (HN )Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler (HN )Angelix - Semantics-based test-driven automated program repair tool for C programs. (Code )Inline and Sideline Approaches for Low-Cost Memory Safety in C (2021) Checked C - Adds static and dynamic checking to C to detect or prevent common programming errors such as buffer overruns and out-of-bounds memory accesses. (HN )ELF: symbol lookup via DT_HASH (2017) Actually Portable Executables (2021) (HN )Rust, Zig, and the Futility of "Replacing" C (2021) (Lobsters )Git's list of banned C functions (HN )Microsoft's list of banned C functions (HN )Aro - C compiler written in Zig. (HN )Half of curl’s vulnerabilities are C mistakes (2021) (Lobsters ) (HN )C's removal of gets could have been done better (2021) Compile times, and why "the obvious" might not be so (2021) (Lobsters )CBMC - Bounded Model Checker for C and C++ programs. (Web )Type-safe generic data structures in C (2020) Modern C and What We Can Learn from It (2021) (HN )The price of dynamic memory: Allocation (2020) The Byte Order Fiasco (2021) (Lobsters )snmalloc - High-performance allocator.Practical Design Patterns: Opaque Pointers and Objects in C (2021) (Lobsters )Movfuscator - Compile C into only mov instructions. (HN ) (HN )Undefined behavior in C is a reading error (2021) (Lobsters )lacc - Simple, self-hosting C compiler.RefinedC: Automating the Foundational Verification of C Code with Refined Ownership Types (2021) (HN )Modern C for C++ Peeps (2019) Libdill: Structured Concurrency for C (2016) (HN )Goodbye C++, Hello C (2021) (HN )CompCert - Formally-verified C compiler. (Web ) (HN )When static makes your C code 10 times faster (2021) (HN ) (Lobsters )Goodbye C developers: The future of programming with certified program synthesis (2021) (Lobsters )Macros on Steroids, Or: How Can Pure C Benefit From Metaprogramming (2021) CGuard: Efficient Spatial Safety for C (2021) IOCCC - The International Obfuscated C Code Contest. (Winners )Performance vs Programming Effort between Rust and C on Multicore Architectures: Case Study in N-Body (2021) Strict memcpy() bounds checking for the kernel (2021) (HN )strcpy: a niche function you don't need (2021) (Lobsters )#ifdef Considered Harmful, or Portability Experience with C News (1992) Ocean - Programming language lik C that compiles into a x86 ELF executable. (HN )The (too) many pitfalls of VLA in C (2021) The Descent to C (2013) (HN )Progress on C23 (2021) (HN ) (Lobsters )pycparser - Complete C99 parser in pure Python.PackCC - Parser generator for C.Why is C Faster Than My Language? (2021) Elements of C Style pcpp - C99 preprocessor written in pure Python.Fast character case conversion (or how to compress sparse arrays) (HN )Proposal to add constexpr to C (2021) (HN )rust-cexpr - C expression parser and evaluator.When to Use Goto (HN )There is no 'printf' (2021) (HN )Comparing the c ffi overhead on various programming languages 55GiB/s FizzBuzz (HN ) (Lobsters )In C, how do you know if the dynamic allocation succeeded? (HN )cc65 - Freeware C compiler for 6502 based systems. (Docs )Beware of fast-math (2021) (HN )A Simple, Possibly Correct LR Parser for C11 (2017) Pointers in C / C++ [Full Course] (2020) Smaller C - Simple and small single-pass C compiler.Comprehensive guide to 50 years of evolution of strict C programming (HN )Some obscure C features (2019) (Lobsters )Writing a register based VM in less than 125 lines of C code (2021) (HN )Ogma - Tool to facilitate the integration of safe runtime monitors into other systems. Extends Copilot, a high-level runtime verification framework that generates hard real-time C99 code.Type-Safe Printf For C (HN )Lang-C - Lightweight C parser for Rust.Why Is C Faster Than Java (2009) (HN )Almost Always Unsigned (2022) (HN )C Runtime Overhead (2015) (HN )Ridiculously fast feature flags (2021) (Lobsters )CIL - C Intermediate Language.C structures and padding and sizeof (2022) (Lobsters )Centralizing Resource Cleanup Paths in C (Lobsters )Finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow (2022) (HN )PyClibrary - C parser and bindings automation for Python.Running C unit tests with pytest (2022) A Formal Model of Checked C (2022) (HN )C meeting is over. C23 added the following (2022) (HN )I wrote the least-C C program I could (2022) (HN )C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines (2018) (HN )Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C (2022) (HN ) (Lobsters ) (Reddit )Debugging with GDB (2022) (HN )Debugging with GDB (HN )CMOC - 6809 cross-compiler for a C-like language.C Arrays Are Not Pointers (2021) To Save C, We Must Save ABI (2022) (HN )A flexible, lightweight, spin-lock barrier (2022) C Isn't A Programming Language Anymore (2022) (Lobsters ) (Reddit ) (Tweet ) (Reddit )Quirks of C SubC - Simple subset of C originally written by Nils Holms for teaching newcomers how to write a compiler.c2go - Convert C to Go.Implementing cosine in C from scratch (2020) (HN )Writing a C Compiler Book (Article )Kate's C AMA (2022) Haskell C Compiler - Learning Haskell for the first time and using it to write a simple C compiler.I wrote a peephole optimizer for QBE (2022) (Lobsters )When FFI Function Calls Beat Native C (2018) (HN )Advanced Optimization and New Capabilities of GCC 11 Tiny C Projects - Collection of small C projects - usually a minimal example of something interesting.Old C code – how to upgrade it? (2022) Minipeg - Parser generator for C.C72 - Port of the earliest C compiler to x86 (2021). (HN )C17 compiler written from scratch in C Neatcc - Small arm/x86(-64) C compiler.C-implemented C compiler A blog that is a single executable binary (2022) (HN )Tiny C Compiler - Smallest ANSI C compiler.Awesome tooling for Bazel users of the C language family The Lost Art of Structure Packing (2014) (HN )Self-hosting C compiler Minimal C compiler in x86 assembly (HN )Set of minimal dependency bootstrap binaries - Goal of creating a bootstrapping path to a C compiler capable of compiling GCC, with only the explicit requirement of a single 1 KByte binary or less.A game for learning C operator precedence (Lobsters )4 integers are enough to write a Snake Game (2022) (Lobsters )A lock-free, concurrent, generic queue in 32 bits (2022) (HN )Logging C Functions (2022) (Lobsters )Linux and Tiny C Compiler in the browser (2022) All About Libpas, Phil's Super Fast Malloc (HN )Pretty-Printable Enumerations in Pure C (2022) Psyche-C - Compiler frontend for the C programming language.Testing and building C projects with Zig (2022) ClangIR (CIR) - New high-level IR for clang.Assertions should be more debugger-oriented (2022) Adding Modules to C in 10 Lines of Code (HN )OpenBSD has two new C compilers: chibicc and kefir (2022) (HN )Goblint - Static analysis framework for C.Kefir C compiler - Implementation of C17 language compiler from scratch.Polymorphism through Typeclasses / Interface / Traits in C Practical design patterns in C little - Small, fast, easily embeddable language implemented in C.Embed is in C23 (2022) (HN ) (Lobsters )What's the most portable way to include binary blobs in an executable? (2022) (HN )The different ways to handle errors in C (2022) (Lobsters )ClangIR (CIR) - New high-level IR for clang.C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete' (2022) (HN )C23 is Finished: Here is What is on the Menu (2022) (HN )The pervasive effects of C's malloc() and free() on C APIs (2022) (HN )sexpc - C as S-expressions. (Lobsters )The case against an alternative to C (2022) (Lobsters )The quick and practical "MSI" hash table (2022) Advanced Metaprogramming in C: A select statement (2022) (HN )TruffleC: C implementation on top of JVM (2014) Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012) (HN )Fexl - Function EXpression Language.