Typical issues

Below are listed and explained typical C-code pitfalls to avoid:

• The usage of generic C-types (int, char, etc.):

  When generic types are used for embedded projects, the code becomes substantially less portable because on different platforms the same type could have different bit sizes. The resulting errors could become hardly discovered and bring the developer hours of interesting debug sessions.
  To avoid this, the C99 standard has a header with portable fixed-width types. The header is available for inclusion by the <stdint.h> name (or cstdint in C++).
  For more, follow this wiki link.

• The infinite while (1) cycle outside of main():

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