Coding Standards for pure C (not C++)

Question

I come from a java background (from my CS classes) and a semester of C++. I am just finishing up a OpenCV project for my Co-Op that\'s in pure C, so I\'m a bit late in aski

Answer 1

You can restrict visibility of file-scope variables and functions to their respective source files (although that doesn't prevent you from passing pointers to these objects around).

For example:

/** foo.c */
static void foo_helper() {...} /* foo_helper cannot be called by name 
                                  outside of foo.c */
static int local_state;        /* local state is visible at file scope,
                                  but is not exported to the linker */