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From: ian@ukpoit.co.uk (Ian Spare)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: C Programming Stds/Procedures
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.145843.2842@ukpoit.co.uk>
Date: 19 Feb 91 14:58:43 GMT
Organization: iT - The Information Technology Business Of The Post Office
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I have been approached by a member of our Quality Assurance group with a view 
to setting up some of C programming standards iand procedures for internal use.

We feel these standards/procedures should cover the following areas:

    o - Use of utilities such as make , lint etc ( other suggestions 
        are welcome).

    o - Some guidelines for programming style.

    o - Operating system interaction.

    o - Use of standard libaries and system calls.

    o - Implications of standards such as POSIX and X-OPEN.

    o - How to do it - production of zero defect software.

We use NCR towers running Unix versions 5.2 and 5.3 ( soon presumably 5.4 ),
this will not preclude other platforms and possibly use of C standards for 
C programming on other Operating Systems.

It is not my intention to inspire some sort of 'flame-war' on this and be 
deluged with mailings about how to write comments , I am most interested in 
hearing from other large organisations who have undertaken a similar exercise.

To minimise wasted bandwidth please direct ( some :-) ) replies to my 
mailbox.
-- 
Ian Spare , iT , Barker Lane , CHESTERFIELD , DERBYS , S40 1DY , GREAT BRITAIN

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