Actually I experienced worse restrictions when I was at Siemens writing embedded. Expanding on your list, here are some extras: - ternary operator("?") was str

Actually I experienced worse restrictions when I was at Siemens writing embedded. Expanding on your list, here are some extras: - ternary operator("?") was strictly forbidden. One had to use full "if () {..}else {..}" syntax with comments inside each branch even if the branch was empty - a dynamic array written in an abstract way, when used and implemented specifically for current project had to become a constant static one, with values precalculated and copy/pasted to current project source. This was a fun one to do maintenance work years later. - magic numbers inside code was forbidden. All numbers had to be defined in a specific header, with explanation why is that number said value. - no variable parameters. All functions to have fixed parameters - use of macros as minimum as possible. Code review was wasted sometime on 50% time over use of macros that were not already "classic" from the project point of view - operator overload strictly forbidden. Also overloading functions was forbidden too.