TIOBE - C Coding Standard

TIOBE - C Coding Standard

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issued by the CCB Coding Standards TIOBE

Purpose

This document defines the TIOBE C Coding Standard. The coding standard consists of rules and recommendations for code written and/or maintained in the C programming language.

Scope

This coding standard applies to all C code that is written and/or maintained. The procedure to be followed when a rule must be broken is outside the scope of this document.

This coding standard does specify rules and recommendations

to prevent coding errors
to prevent coding using obsolete or deprecated language features
to prevent coding using undefined or implementation defined language features
to achieve a certain consistency in coding style

The TIOBE C coding standard does not attempt to teach how to design effective C code. It also does not categorically rule out any programming idioms that C is designed to support.