C Pocket Reference

by Prinz, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780596004361
• ISBN10: 0596004362
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780596004361
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Summary

Ideal as an introduction for beginners and a quick reference for advanced programmers, this handy little book consists of two parts: A compact description of the C language and a thematically structured reference to the standard library. C Pocket Reference is the only pocket- sized quick reference available on the topic, this new book includes: C language fundamentals, data types, expressions and operators, C statements, declarations, functions, preprocessor directives, and the standard library. This book is one that all software C programmers will want to have on hand.

Author Biography

Peter Prinz specializes in developing software and in teaching Assembler, C/C++/C#, Java, Windows (MFC), and UNIX system programming. As the chief developer and cofounder of an IT company, Peter has gained extensive experience in software development for computer telephony. As a seminar leader and key course developer at a professional consulting and training company he has taught courses to thousands of software developers. Peter is the co-author with his wife Ulla of several other books on software development in C/C++. More recent projects include "A Complete Guide to Programming in C++" (Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2002). Peter currently resides in Munich, Germany, with Ulla and their two children: Vivi and Jeany. He may be contacted by email at [e-mail]

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Fundamentals	p. 2
C Program Structure	p. 3
Character Sets	p. 4
Identifiers	p. 6
Categories and Scope of Identifiers	p. 7
Basic Types	p. 9
Integer Types	p. 9
Real and Complex Floating Types	p. 11
The Type void	p. 13
Constants	p. 14
Integer Constants	p. 14
Floating Constants	p. 16
Character Constants and String Literals	p. 16
Expressions and Operators	p. 18
Arithmetic Operators	p. 20
Assignment Operators	p. 21
Relational Operators and Logical Operators	p. 22
Logical Operators	p. 23
Bitwise Operators	p. 24
Memory Accessing Operators	p. 25
Other Operators	p. 27
Type Conversions	p. 29
Integer Promotion	p. 29
Usual Arithmetic Conversions	p. 30
Type Conversions in Assignments and Pointers	p. 30
Statements	p. 31
Block and Expression Statements	p. 32
Jumps	p. 33
Loops	p. 35
Unconditional Jumps	p. 37
Declarations	p. 39
General Syntax and Examples	p. 39
Complex Declarations	p. 40
Variables	p. 41
Storage Classes	p. 41
Initialization	p. 42
Derived Types	p. 43
Enumeration Types	p. 43
Structures, Unions, and Bit-Fields	p. 45
Array	p. 49
Pointers	p. 52
Type Qualifiers and Type Definitions	p. 55
Functions	p. 57
Function Prototypes	p. 58
Function Definitions	p. 59
Function Calls	p. 61
Functions with Variable Numbers of Arguments	p. 62
Linkage of Identifiers	p. 64
Preprocessing Directives	p. 65
Standard Library	p. 73
Standard Header Files	p. 73
Input and Output	p. 74
Error Handling for Input/Output Functions	p. 76
General File Access Functions	p. 76
File Input/Output Functions	p. 79
Numerical Limits and Number Classification	p. 87
Value Ranges of Integer Types	p. 87
Range and Precision of Real Floating Types	p. 88
Classification of Floating-Point Numbers	p. 90
Mathematical Functions	p. 91
Mathematical Functions for Integer Types	p. 91
Mathematical Functions for Real Floating Types	p. 92
Optimizing Runtime Efficiency	p. 94
Mathematical Functions for Complex Floating Types	p. 95
Type-Generic Macros	p. 96
Error Handling for Mathematical Functions	p. 97
The Floating-Point Environment	p. 98
Character Classification and Case Mapping	p. 101
String Handling	p. 103
Conversion Between Strings and Numbers	p. 105
Multibyte Character Conversion	p. 107
Searching and Sorting	p. 108
Memory Block Management	p. 109
Dynamic Memory Management	p. 110
Time and Date	p. 111
Process Control	p. 113
Communication with the Operating System	p. 113
Signals	p. 114
Non-Local Jumps	p. 115
Error Handling for System Functions	p. 116
Internationalization	p. 116
Index	p. 121
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