I've decided to compile a list of common programming mistakes when using C.

Random numbers

Q: Why is my program generating the same random numbers?
A: You're probably re-seeding the PRNG. You should call srand() just once, at the beginning of your program. From then on, just avoid concurrent accesses …

Recently, I went through the exercise of hooking up a crash-reporting component to a large .NET application using Windows Forms. The goal, of course, is to catch all unhandled exceptions so they can be reported to the developer.

Throughout this post I'll be referring to this Program.cs:

The code …

Nowdays, it's not hard to find tons of arguments against the use of goto in C (and C-like languages). Post anything to StackOverflow, about/including goto and you're almost guaranteed to get flamed.

Just like many good and useful things in our lives (pocketknives, guns, kegs, etc.) it only takes …

There's a lot of over-complicated information on the internet for communicating between a C# process and a Python process using named pipes on Windows. I'll start with the code:

In this example, I implement a very simple protocol, where every "message" is a 4-byte integer (UInt32 in C#, I (un …

I had just started writing a new C++ console app (under Visual Studio 2010 10.0.40219.1 SP1Rel) to test something out, and had just this:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <Windows.h>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    return 0;
}

I unintentionally clicked Start Debugging, and much to my …