November 2016 – Jens Gustedt's Blog

You find the latest version of my book at the usual place at

This now contains all the material that I plan to put into it. New are “experience” parts about performance, function-like macros and _Generic, control flow, threads and atomics. There is in particular a section about memory consistency, probably the most difficult write-up for this book.

These higher level parts have not yet have had the reading they hopefully deserve, so please give it a try. As before, constructive feedback is highly welcome. Thanks to everybody who already did send me comments and corrections!

Constructive comments to this blog are welcome.

This is not the right place for

feedback about details (missing commas, spelling errors). If you have such details, please collect them and send them to me directly.
rants against the C standard. This is not the place to let off steam nor to compare to whatever other programming language you prefer. If you have criticism about the C standard, please contribute. The C standards committee is a nice batch of people, don’t be afraid. And if you have concrete proposals, also it would be much better to contact me (or any other member of the committee) directly and see how you may invest yourself in the ISO process.

Also, comments that come from real people are highly preferred.