C Programming Language: Kernighan, Brian W.; Ritchie, Dennis: 9780131103627: Book: Computers: eCampus.com

This book is meant to help the reader learn how to program in C. It is the definitive reference guide, now in a second edition. Although the first edition was written in 1978, it continues to be a worldwide best-seller. This second edition brings the classic original up to date to include the ANSI standard.

From the Preface:

We have tried to retain the brevity of the first edition. C is not a big language, and it is not well served by a big book. We have improved the exposition of critical features, such as pointers, that are central to C programming. We have refined the original examples, and have added new examples in several chapters. For instance, the treatment of complicated declarations is augmented by programs that convert declarations into words and vice versa. As before, all examples have been tested directly from the text, which is in machine-readable form.

As we said in the first preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way. We hope that this book will help you to learn C and use it well.

Preface

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Preface to the First Edition

Introduction

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Chapter 1. A Tutorial Introduction

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1.1 Getting Started

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1.2 Variables and Arithmetic Expressions

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1.3 The For Statement

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1.4 Symbolic Constants

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1.5 Character Input and Output

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1.6 Arrays

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1.7 Functions

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1.8 Arguments--Call by Value

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1.9 Character Arrays

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1.10 External Variables and Scope

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Chapter 2. Types, Operators, and Expressions

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2.1 Variable Names

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2.2 Data Types and Sizes

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2.3 Constants

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2.4 Declarations

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2.5 Arithmetic Operators

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2.6 Relational and Logical Operators

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2.7 Type Conversions

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2.8 Increment and Decrement Operators

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2.9 Bitwise Operators

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2.10 Assignment Operators and Expressions

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2.11 Conditional Expressions

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2.12 Precedence and Order of Evaluation

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Chapter 3. Control Flow

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3.1 Statements and Blocks

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3.2 If-Else

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3.3 Else-If

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3.4 Switch

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3.5 Loops--While and For

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3.6 Loops--Do-while

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3.7 Break and Continue

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3.8 Goto and Labels

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Chapter 4. Functions and Program Structure

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4.1 Basics of Functions

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4.2 Functions Returning Non-integers

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4.3 External Variables

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4.4 Scope Rules

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4.5 Header Files

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4.6 Static Variables

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4.7 Register Variables

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4.8 Block Structure

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4.9 Initialization

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4.10 Recursion

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4.11 The C Preprocessor

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Chapter 5. Pointers and Arrays

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5.1 Pointers and Addresses

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5.2 Pointers and Function Arguments

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5.3 Pointers and Arrays

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5.4 Address Arithmetic

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5.5 Character Pointers and Functions

104

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5.6 Pointer Arrays; Pointers to Pointers

107

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5.7 Multi-dimensional Arrays

110

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5.8 Initialization of Pointer Arrays

113

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5.9 Pointers vs. Multi-dimensional Arrays

113

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5.10 Command-line Arguments

114

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5.11 Pointers to Functions

118

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5.12 Complicated Declarations

122

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Chapter 6. Structures

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6.1 Basics of Structures

127

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6.2 Structures and Functions

129

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6.3 Arrays of Structures

132

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6.4 Pointers to Structures

136

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6.5 Self-referential Structures

139

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6.6 Table Lookup

143

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6.7 Typedef

146

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6.8 Unions

147

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6.9 Bit-fields

149

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Chapter 7. Input and Output

151

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7.1 Standard Input and Output

151

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7.2 Formatted Output--Printf

153

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7.3 Variable-length Argument Lists

155

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7.4 Formatted Input -- Scanf

157

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7.5 File Access

160

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7.6 Error Handling--Stderr and Exit

163

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7.7 Line Input and Output

164

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7.8 Miscellaneous Functions

166

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Chapter 8. The UNIX System Interface

169

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8.1 File Descriptors

169

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8.2 Low Level I/O -- Read and Write

170

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8.3 Open, Creat, Close, Unlink

172

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8.4 Random Access -- Lseek

174

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8.5 Example--An Implementation of Fopen and Getc

175

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8.6 Example--Listing Directories

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8.7 Example--A Storage Allocator

185

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Appendix A. Reference Manual

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A1 Introduction

191

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A2 Lexical Conventions

191

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A3 Syntax Notation

194

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A4 Meaning of Identifiers

195

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A5 Objects and Lvalues

197

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A6 Conversions

197

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A7 Expressions

200

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A8 Declarations

210

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A9 Statements

222

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A10 External Declarations

225

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A11 Scope and Linkage

227

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A12 Preprocessing

228

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A13 Grammar

234

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Appendix B. Standard Library

241

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B1 Input and Output: [stdio.h]

241

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B2 Character Class Tests: [ctype.h]

248

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B3 String Functions: [string.h]

249

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B4 Mathematical Functions: [math.h]

250

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B5 Utility Functions: [stdlib.h]

251

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B6 Diagnostics: [assert.h]

253

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B7 Variable Argument Lists: [stdarg.h]

254

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B8 Non-local Jumps: [setjmp.h]

254

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B9 Signals: [signal.h]

255

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B10 Date and Time Functions: [time.h]

255

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B11 Implementation-defined Limits: [limits.h] and [float.h]

257

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Appendix C. Summary of Changes

259

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Index

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