C Roadmap - simpleprog

simpleprog

Foundations

▸ Pointer Arithmetic

▸ Pointer to Pointer (Double Indirection)

▸ Function Pointers & Callbacks

Core Concepts

▸ Restrict Keyword (C99)

▸ Void Pointers (Generic Pointers)

▸ Complex Pointer Declarations

Intermediate Skills

▸ Dangling Pointers & Safe Patterns

▸ Static, Stack & Heap Allocation

▸ Malloc Internals (glibc)

Advanced Topics

▸ Calloc, Realloc & Aligned Allocation

▸ Memory Pools & Custom Allocators

▸ Memory Corruption Detection

Expert Level

▸ Stack Allocation & VLA (C99)

▸ Memory-Mapped Files (mmap)

▸ Reference Counting in C

Mastery

▸ Token Pasting (##) & Stringification (#)

▸ Variadic Macros & __VA_ARGS__

▸ X-Macros & Code Generation

Ecosystem

▸ Header Guards & #pragma once

▸ #line & #error Directives

▸ Conditional Compilation Patterns

Architecture

▸ Macro Pitfalls: Multiple Evaluation

▸ Translation Phases

▸ Lexical Analysis & Tokens

Optimization

▸ Parsing & AST Generation

▸ Code Generation & Optimization

▸ Linker Relocation & Symbol Resolution

Deployment

▸ Inline Functions vs Macros

▸ Calling Convention (cdecl, stdcall)

▸ POSIX Threads (pthreads)

Phase 11

▸ Mutex & Condition Variables

▸ Thread-Local Storage

▸ C11 Atomics & Memory Order

Phase 12

▸ Lock-Free Data Structures

▸ Signal Handling & Async-Safety

▸ OpenMP Parallel Directives

Phase 13

▸ Compiler Optimization Flags (-O1, -O2, -O3)

▸ Profile-Guided Optimization

▸ Loop Unrolling & Vectorization

Phase 14

▸ Cache-Friendly Data Layout

▸ Branch Prediction & Likely/Unlikely

▸ Inline Assembly Intrinsics

Phase 15

▸ Link-Time Optimization (LTO)

▸ System V AMD64 ABI

▸ Windows x64 Calling Convention

Phase 16

▸ Stack Frame Layout

▸ Return Value Handling

▸ Structure Passing

Phase 17

▸ TLS & Thread-Local Storage ABI

▸ Name Mangling & C Linkage

▸ Volatile & Memory-Mapped I/O

Phase 18

▸ Interrupt Service Routines

▸ Bit Manipulation Techniques

▸ Fixed-Point Arithmetic

Phase 19

▸ Watchdog Timers

▸ Low-Power Modes

▸ Bootloader Implementation

Phase 20

▸ Berkeley Sockets API

▸ TCP Server Implementation

▸ Non-blocking I/O with epoll

Phase 21

▸ UDP Multicast

▸ DNS Resolution (getaddrinfo)

▸ Raw Sockets & Packet Injection

Phase 22

▸ SSL/TLS with OpenSSL

▸ Static vs Shared Libraries

▸ Library Search Paths

Phase 23

▸ Symbol Visibility & dllexport

▸ Linking Order & Undefined Symbols

▸ Shared Library Versioning

Phase 24

▸ Weak Symbols & Interposition

▸ Plugin Systems with dlopen

▸ Unit Testing with CUnit/Check

Phase 25

▸ Mocking in C

▸ Fuzzing with libFuzzer

▸ Assertion-Based Testing

Phase 26

▸ Test Coverage Analysis (gcov)

▸ Continuous Integration for C

▸ Valgrind for Memory Testing

Phase 27

▸ Buffer Overflow Attacks

▸ Stack Canaries

▸ Address Space Layout Randomization

Phase 28

▸ Format String Vulnerabilities

▸ Integer Overflow & Wraparound

▸ Secure Coding Guidelines (CERT)

Phase 29

▸ Static Analysis with Coverity

▸ Recursive Descent Parsing

▸ Lex/Yacc & Flex/Bison

Phase 30

▸ Regular Expressions in C

▸ JSON Parser Implementation

▸ INI File Parser

Phase 31

▸ CSV Parsing Edge Cases

▸ Binary Protocol Parsing

▸ File I/O System Calls

Phase 32

▸ Process Management (fork, exec)

▸ Inter-Process Communication (pipe, FIFO)

▸ Signal Handling

Phase 33

▸ Memory-Mapped Files

▸ Resource Limits (setrlimit)

▸ Daemon Process Creation

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