Programming Guidelines

Following a few programming guidelines helps to reduce code size. The Compiler many things. However, a complex programming style or a style that forces the Compiler to perform special code sequences results in a less efficient optimization.

The topics covered here are as follows:

• Constant Function at Specific Address
  
  
• HLI Assembly
  
  
• Post- and Pre-Operators in Complex Expressions
  
  
• Boolean Types
  
  
• printf() and scanf()
  
  
• Bitfields
  
  
• Struct Returns
  
  
• Local Variables
  
  
• Parameter Passing
  
  
• Unsigned Data Types
  
  
• Inlining and Macros
  
  
• Data Types
  
  
• Short Segments
  
  
• Qualifiers