Re: Quirky/weird C code

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Obfuscated C and Other Mysteries

The book deals more with the obfuscated C contest winners, but it does have 
some sections about the dark corners of C.

Tom


On Monday 11 March 2002 09:00 am, Kashif Shaikh wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>   I am sorry that I have to ask such a simple question, but there are
> many constructs in the linux kernel source code that are weird looking
> and difficult to understand, but I guess they are used to make code
> more efficient.  I know some of the weird constructs are due to GCC
> extensions, but there are a bunch of others(can't remember right now)
> that are legal C code(but the type of code you won't typically
> encounter).  I'm pretty adept at C, but I want to learn this other
> tricky/quirky side of C coding[so I can read kernel source more
> 'fluently' ;)]
>
>   Anyone know of good books on this? Or websites?
>
> Any help is appreciated:-)
>
> -- Kashif
>
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