Programming With Gnu Software

by Loukides, Mike; Oram, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9781565921122
• ISBN10: 1565921127
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-12-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

This book and CD combination is a complete package for programmers who are new to UNIX or who would like to make better use of the system. The tools come from Cygnus Support, Inc., and Cyclic Software, companies that provide support for free software. Contents include GNU Emacs, gcc, C and C++ libraries, gdb, RCS, and make. The book provides an introduction to all these tools for a C programmer.

Author Biography

Andy Oram is an editor at O'Reilly & Associates, specializing in books on Linux and programming. Most recently, he edited Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies.

Mike Loukides is an editor for O'Reilly & Associates. He is the author of System Performance Tuning and UNIX for FORTRAN Programmers. Mike's interests are system administration, networking, programming languages, and computer architecture. His academic background includes degrees in electrical engineering (B.S.) and English literature (Ph.D.).

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Towards a Free Software Development Environment	1	(14)
UNIX, the Programmer's Playground	2	(2)
What Is Free Software?	4	(6)
The Software in This Book	10	(1)
Installing Binaries	11	(1)
Updating Your Tools	11	(2)
The Free Software Culture	13	(2)
Introduction to the UNIX Operating System	15	(38)
Logging in to UNIX	16	(1)
UNIX Commands	17	(2)
The UNIX Filesystem	19	(9)
Online Documentation	28	(2)
Standard Input and Output	30	(2)
Controlling Execution	32	(5)
Shell Programs	37	(6)
Shell Customization	43	(6)
Other Basic Tools	49	(4)
Editing Source Code with Emacs	53	(32)
Getting Emacs Started	54	(3)
Basic Editing in C Mode	57	(20)
Compiling Without Leaving Emacs	77	(2)
Shell Windows	79	(2)
Tags	81	(2)
Some Other Modes and Commands	83	(2)
Compiling and Linking with gcc	85	(24)
C Compilation	85	(12)
Assembling a C Program	97	(1)
Linking Programs	98	(4)
Creating Libraries	102	(1)
Cross-Compilation	103	(6)
Libraries	109	(20)
Error Handling	110	(2)
Signals	112	(3)
Time	115	(4)
System Interface Issues	119	(4)
C++ Classes	123	(3)
Libraries and Licensing	126	(3)
Debugging C and C++ Programs	129	(38)
Compilation for gdb	130	(1)
Starting gdb	130	(2)
Basic gdb Commands	132	(17)
Variable Scope and Context	149	(1)
Moving Up and Down the Call Stack	150	(9)
C++ Programs	159	(1)
Interface to Emacs	160	(1)
Command Completion and Abbreviations	161	(3)
Attaching to an Existing Process	164	(1)
Quick Reference	165	(2)
Automatic Compilation with make	167	(18)
Creating a makefile	169	(10)
Invoking make	179	(2)
make and RCS	181	(1)
Error Messages	181	(2)
Some Final Notes	183	(2)
Source Management with RCs	185	(14)
Revision Trees	186	(1)
Basic Operations	187	(5)
More About Checking In	192	(1)
New and Old Generations	193	(1)
Other Features	194	(3)
The Next Step	197	(2)
Program Timing and Profiling	199	(12)
Simple Timings	200	(1)
Introduction to Profiling	201	(1)
Generating a Profile with gprof	202	(9)
What Is Cygnus Support?	211	(2)
Building GNU Software from Sources	213	(8)
Data Representations	221	(4)
The GNU General Public License	225	(8)
Index	233