April 11, 1998

A safe-to-use, long-lasting switch statement should always contain a default label in order to avoid hard-to-detect bugs such as the following: //Month.h fileenum Month { Jan, Feb, Mar, //…etc. Dec};//Month.cpp

In standard C, the functions abort() and exit() perform an immediate program termination, regardless of where they are called from. Although this also works in C++, it is usually not

In standard C, a function declared static has an internal linkage; it is accessible only from within the translation unit (source file) in which it is declared, but not from