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C: In a Nutshell
By Tony Crawford, Peter Prinz
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Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: December 2005
ISBN: 0-596-00697-7
Pages: 618

Table of Contents | Index

How This Book Is Organized

Further Reading

Conventions Used in This Book

Using Code Examples

Safari® Enabled

Your Questions and Comments

Acknowledgments

Part I: Language

Chapter 1. Language Basics

Section 1.1. Characteristics of C

Section 1.2. The Structure of C Programs

Section 1.3. Source Files

Section 1.4. Comments

Section 1.5. Character Sets

Section 1.6. Identifiers

Section 1.7. How the C Compiler Works

Chapter 2. Types

Section 2.1. Typology

Section 2.2. Integer Types

Section 2.3. Floating-Point Types

Section 2.4. Complex Floating-Point Types (C99)

Section 2.5. Enumerated Types

Section 2.6. The Type void

Chapter 3. Literals

Section 3.1. Integer Constants

Section 3.2. Floating-Point Constants

Section 3.3. Character Constants

Section 3.4. String Literals

Chapter 4. Type Conversions

Section 4.1. Conversion of Arithmetic Types

Section 4.2. Conversion of Nonarithmetic Types

Chapter 5. Expressions and Operators

Section 5.1. How Expressions Are Evaluated

Section 5.2. Operators in Detail

Section 5.3. Constant Expressions

Chapter 6. Statements

Section 6.1. Expression Statements

Section 6.2. Block Statements

Section 6.3. Loops

Section 6.4. Selection Statements

Section 6.5. Unconditional Jumps

Chapter 7. Functions

Section 7.1. Function Definitions

Section 7.2. Function Declarations

Section 7.3. How Functions Are Executed

Section 7.4. Pointers as Arguments and Return Values

Section 7.5. Inline Functions

Section 7.6. Recursive Functions

Section 7.7. Variable Numbers of Arguments

Chapter 8. Arrays

Section 8.1. Defining Arrays

Section 8.2. Accessing Array Elements

Section 8.3. Initializing Arrays

Section 8.4. Strings

Section 8.5. Multidimensional Arrays

Section 8.6. Arrays as Arguments of Functions

Chapter 9. Pointers

Section 9.1. Declaring Pointers

Section 9.2. Operations with Pointers

Section 9.3. Pointers and Type Qualifiers

Section 9.4. Pointers to Arrays and Arrays of Pointers

Section 9.5. Pointers to Functions

Chapter 10. Structures and Unions and Bit-Fields

Section 10.1. Structures

Section 10.2. Unions

Section 10.3. Bit-Fields

Chapter 11. Declarations

Section 11.1. General Syntax

Section 11.2. Type Names

Section 11.3. typedef Declarations

Section 11.4. Linkage of Identifiers

Section 11.5. Storage Duration of Objects

Section 11.6. Initialization

Chapter 12. Dynamic Memory Management

Section 12.1. Allocating Memory Dynamically

Section 12.2. Characteristics of Allocated Memory

Section 12.3. Resizing and Releasing Memory

Section 12.4. An All-Purpose Binary Tree

Section 12.5. Characteristics

Section 12.6. Implementation

Chapter 13. Input and Output

Section 13.1. Streams

Section 13.2. Files

Section 13.3. Opening and Closing Files

Section 13.4. Reading and Writing

Section 13.5. Random File Access

Chapter 14. Preprocessing Directives

Section 14.1. Inserting the Contents of Header Files

Section 14.2. Defining and Using Macros

Section 14.3. Conditional Compiling

Section 14.4. Defining Line Numbers

Section 14.5. Generating Error Messages

Section 14.6. The #pragma Directive

Section 14.7. The _Pragma Operator

Section 14.8. Predefined Macros

Part II: Standard Library

Chapter 15. The Standard Headers

Section 15.1. Using the Standard Headers

Section 15.2. Contents of the Standard Headers

Chapter 16. Functions at a Glance

Section 16.1. Input and Output

Section 16.2. Mathematical Functions

Section 16.3. Character Classification and Conversion

Section 16.4. String Processing

Section 16.5. Multibyte Characters

Section 16.6. Converting Between Numbers and Strings

Section 16.7. Searching and Sorting

Section 16.8. Memory Block Handling

Section 16.9. Dynamic Memory Management

Section 16.10. Date and Time

Section 16.11. Process Control

Section 16.12. Internationalization

Section 16.13. Nonlocal Jumps

Section 16.14. Debugging

Section 16.15. Error Messages

Chapter 17. Standard Library Functions

fegetexceptflag

fesetexceptflag

isgreater, isgreaterequal

isless, islessequal, islessgreater

scalbln, scalbn

strtod, strtof, strtold

strtol, strtoll

strtoul, strtoull

va_arg, va_copy, va_end, va_start

vfprintf, vprintf, vsnprintf, vsprintf

vfscanf, vscanf, vsscanf

vfwprintf, vswprintf, vwprintf

vfwscanf, vswscanf, vwscanf

wcstod, wcstof, wcstold

wcstol, wcstoll

wcstoul, wcstoull

Part III: Basic Tools

Chapter 18. Compiling with GCC

Section 18.1. The GNU Compiler Collection

Section 18.2. Obtaining and Installing GCC

Section 18.3. Compiling C Programs with GCC

Section 18.4. C Dialects

Section 18.5. Compiler Warnings

Section 18.6. Optimization

Section 18.7. Debugging

Section 18.8. Profiling

Section 18.9. Option and Environment Variable Summary

Chapter 19. Using make to Build C Programs

Section 19.1. Targets, Prerequisites, and Commands

Section 19.2. The Makefile

Section 19.3. Rules

Section 19.4. Comments

Section 19.5. Variables

Section 19.6. Phony Targets

Section 19.7. Other Target Attributes

Section 19.8. Macros

Section 19.9. Functions

Section 19.10. Directives

Section 19.11. Running make

Chapter 20. Debugging C Programs with GDB

Section 20.1. Installing GDB

Section 20.2. A Sample Debugging Session

Section 20.3. Starting GDB

Section 20.4. Using GDB Commands

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