Jens Gustedt

Came also here to recommend this book. You can obtain it for free at the authors site: https://gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr/modern-c/ If you like it you could buy the print version. There are some things he writes that are a bit controversial but generally I think it is very thorough. Sometimes it felt a bit dry to read to me.

As some other posters do, I recommend "Modern C" by Jens Gusted. You can read it for free here: https://gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr/modern-c/ And if you like it, I encourage you to purchase a copy here: https://www.manning.com/books/modern-c

Has anyone actually even tried the K&R book in the past couple of decades and not run into issues like the assumption of unbuffered shell output? You get like one or two chapters in and things are already behaving outside of how they did when that book was written in the 1980s. It's a classic, yes, but I don't recommend it to anyone outside of people writing code in C89 for vintage systems... Yet the amount of suggestions I see from people who haven't actually learned C from scratch since the 1990s to read that particular title is high enough that I can't do anything but scratch my head over it. Tons has changed over thirty plus years. If you're looking for something up to date I'd recommend this: https://gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr/modern-c/

It's outdated in many ways. You might try instead "Modern C" by Jen Gustedt, which is free online [0]. (This recommendation assumes previous programming experience.) [0] https://gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr/modern-c/

C and C++ have noticeable differences, despite a common origin, and should be treated as different languages. For C, many people recommend Gustedt's "Modern C" which is available in print but has a free ebook version (https://gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr/modern-c/). For C++, Stroustrup's "A Tour of C++" seems to be well liked.

Jens Gustedt's Modern C https://gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr/modern-c/

The link isn't working for me, I think this is the same article as the one OP posted? https://gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr/c23-library/

I found Modern C[1][2] to have more practical advice and much more detail than this book. [1] https://gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr/modern-c/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21006995

There is one free book for modern C https://gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr/modern-c Did not check whether it covers security issues.

Seems like `defer_if` is meant for things like the `errdefer` case: https://gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr/defer/#org4ae1e19 There's no implicit "error for this stackframe" stuff in C so it needs to be given a condition I guess.