Quote from: pmorris on August 31, 2014, 10:02:30 AM

Having a chance to read a relatively compact yet complex and well structured bit of C is a great resource for beginners to learn from an expert. So thanks a lot for creating and open-sourcing the code.

Could you recommend a good resource to learn modern style, multi-threaded and safe C? I've got K&R but that doesn't have the paradigms and approaches that I think would actually be used these days - or should I just go to kernel.org and start reading

On the pool, it's great to give another option for miners to choose from. As smaller miners find that it's not economic to mine with low volatility, perhaps embracing the high volatility and having a lottery ticket option can give a good reason for some of these guys to keep going.

Good luck - I hope someone finds a block or two on the pool soon.

I don't think you can overestimate the value of K&R. It is deceptively simple in its explanations yet there is nothing old school about its programming advice. However I found nothing more valuable than grabbing existing well written code and modifying it and learning from that code. The kernel is tricky because programming on the kernel is a bastard, difficult to debug, and unforgiving unlike a userspace program, so probably not the best way to learn. There also are very few resources available to the kernel besides whatever is already written for it (libraries, floating point etc. are virtually non-existent). As for books, there's a wealth of recommendations out there, just google for best c programming books.