Coding for high reliability/availability/security - what standards do I read?

Check out the Goddard Space Flight Center and its coding standards . One of the C standards, which I've adopted in my own code, is that headers must be self-contained, and they provide a simple way to enforce that -- a module's header must be the first file included in the module, so if the file is not self-contained, it won't compile.

If you're asking specifically about coding, the MISRA presents some guidelines for avoiding common mistakes in C.

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