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

[Olwen Morgan]

What version of the C standard is it commenting on?

Olwen


On 30/11/2018 17:16, Derek M Jones wrote:
> 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.
>