Programming Embedded Systems, 2nd Edition

Conventions, Typographical and Otherwise

The following typographical conventions are used throughout the book:

Italic

Indicates names of files, programs, methods, and options when they appear in the body of a paragraph. Italic is also used for emphasis and to introduce new terms.

Constant Width

In examples, indicates the contents of files and the output of commands. In regular text, this style indicates keywords, functions, variable names, classes, objects, parameters, and other code snippets.

Constant Width Bold

Indicates commands and options to be typed literally. This style is used in examples only.

Constant Width Bold Italic

Indicates text to be replaced with user values; for example, a filename on your system. This style is used in examples only.

Tip

This symbol is used to indicate a tip, suggestion, or general note.

Warning

This symbol is used to indicate a warning.

Other conventions relate to gender and roles. With respect to gender, we have purposefully used both “he” and “she” throughout the book. With respect to roles, we have occasionally distinguished between the tasks of hardware engineers, embedded software engineers, and application programmers. But these titles refer only to roles played by individual engineers, and it should be noted that it can and often does happen that a single individual fills more than one of these roles on an embedded-project team.