Top "Standards" questions

Standards are officially published or well agreed upon formats, procedures, or protocols.

How do I use a binary prefix in accordance with C11?

I am currently starting out with programming micro controllers using C30 (A C compiler based on GCC from microchip for …

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Integer overflow in C: standards and compilers

Edited to include proper standard reference thanks to Carl Norum. The C standard states If an exceptional condition occurs during …

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How to detect Render Mode of browser for current page?

I know that modern browsers generally have two render mode: standard mode and quirk mode. The browser detects the heading …

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What's the difference between "dead code" and "unreachable code"?

I thought those terms where synonymous, but a note in MISRA regarding dead code indicates this to be wrong? What's …

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Where can I find H.264 standard?

I would like to write a little fuzzer for H.264 but I am not aware about the file format. Could …

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What's the de facto standard of triangle winding direction in OpenGL?

We have two options in triangle winding direction, clock-wise counter-clockwise Anyway converting between them could take some cost. I want …

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git: change styling (whitespace) without changing ownership/blame?

We have a massive, ancient codebase that needs a lot of cleanup. We have always had coding standards and everyone …

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What does the SQL Standard say about usage of backtick(`)?

Once I had spent hours in debugging a simple SQL query using mysql_query() in PHP/MySQL only to realise …

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Does a standard for errors / error codes exist?

I am currently writing an API / some clients for chess games. The developers should access the API via one script (…

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Is C++21 the Next Standard?

I heard a lot of buzz about C++17 and C++14 even when C++11 was rolling out. But now I understand …

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