[serbaut]

Can you link to the 30 years of best practice document, I must have missed it.

[spiralpolitik]

A good place to start:

http://www.amazon.com/The-CERT-Secure-Coding-Standard/dp/032...

Online:

https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode...

Others:

http://www.amazon.com/Secure-Coding-Edition-Software-Enginee...

http://www.amazon.com/Style-Guidelines-Programming-Professio...

http://www.amazon.com/C-Traps-Pitfalls-Andrew-Koenig/dp/0201...

[Crito]

Another good read (it probably does not reflect how you want to write C code, the rule about dynammic allocation is probably extreme if you are not writing code to fly spaceships, but I think it is good to read regardless): http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf