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Zeuthen: Writing a C library, part 3
The third
part of David Zeuthen's guide to writing low-level libraries looks at
modularity, error handling, and object-oriented design. "Even with a
library doing proper parameter validation (to catch programmer errors early
on), if you pass garbage to a function you usually end up with undefined
behavior and undefined behavior can mean anything including formatting your
hard disk or evaporating all booze in a five-mile radius (oh noz). That's
why some libraries simply calls abort() instead of carrying on pretending
nothing happened."
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