Zeuthen: Writing a C library, part 1

The canonical example here is that your application is using library A and library B and both A and B are using library C as a private implementation detail. You would think that this just works out of the box, but often it doesn't mostly because of global variables and other assumptions. I should probably include that example.

Thanks for your other suggestions - for most, I had something in the original text that I decided to cull to make the text shorter as it was already too long. Once the full series is done, my plan is to revise each blog entry in the series and then post another blog entry listing what changes I've made including giving credit (e.g. linking to your comment for changes inspired by it etc.).