Course Overview

• Makefiles

• Autoscan, autoconf and configure programs.

• Include files (macros, static variables and functions)

• C style rules (idiom issues, declarations, naming conventions, assertions

• Writing portable code

• Libraries and systems calls, static and shared libraries

• Pointers and function pointers. Memory allocation

• Network programming (sockets, memory buffers, endianness) and error handling

• Debugging using gdb and dmalloc

• CVS, splint