[SystemSafety] Subversive C programs for mockery of static analysis tools ... on a bad day ; -)

[Derek M Jones]

Olwen,

>> For C, somebody has written a book listing all the most frequent
>> constructs :-)
>> www.knosof.co.uk/cbook
> 
> Your web site says that this page was last updated in 2010. Is that 
> correct?

The emails I get from readers, pointing out mistakes (mostly
typos), have tailed off.  There are probably plenty of mistakes
still there.

The pdf download rate has dropped from 1,000 per month, to under 100.

> At 1600+ pages, your book is over twice the length of the C11 standard 
> and over three times the length of the latest C draft DIS. Is this 
> intended to make it easier to use than the standards themselves? Indeed, 
> should it remind us of Gauss' motto, "Pauca sed matura"?

A commentary on a document, that includes the document, will by
definition be longer.

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Derek M. Jones           Software analysis
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