What is your favorite C programming trick? [closed]

C99 offers some really cool stuff using anonymous arrays:

Removing pointless variables

{
    int yes=1;
    setsockopt(yourSocket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &yes, sizeof(int));
}

becomes

setsockopt(yourSocket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, (int[]){1}, sizeof(int));

Passing a Variable Amount of Arguments

void func(type* values) {
    while(*values) {
        x = *values++;
        /* do whatever with x */
    }
}

func((type[]){val1,val2,val3,val4,0});

Static linked lists

int main() {
    struct llist { int a; struct llist* next;};
    #define cons(x,y) (struct llist[]){{x,y}}
    struct llist *list=cons(1, cons(2, cons(3, cons(4, NULL))));
    struct llist *p = list;
    while(p != 0) {
        printf("%d\n", p->a);
        p = p->next;
    }
}

Any I’m sure many other cool techniques I haven’t thought of.

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