C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

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The authors present the complete guide to ANSI standard C language programming. Written by the developers of C, this new version helps readers keep up with the finalized ANSI standard for C while showing how to take advantage of C's rich set of operators, economy of expression, improved control flow, and data structures. The 2/E has been completely rewritten with additional examples and problem sets to clarify the implementation of difficult language constructs. For years, C programmers have let K&R guide them to building well-structured and efficient programs. Now this same help is available to those working with ANSI compilers. Includes detailed coverage of the C language plus the official C language reference manual for at-a-glance help with syntax notation, declarations, ANSI changes, scope rules, and the list goes on and on. Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Preface to the First Edition Introduction Chapter 1. A Tutorial Introduction 1.1 Getting Started 1.2 Variables and Arithmetic Expressions 1.3 The For Statement 1.4 Symbolic Constants 1.5 Character Input and Output 1.6 Arrays 1.7 Functions 1.8 Arguments–Call by Value 1.9 Character Arrays 1.10 External Variables and Scope Chapter 2. Types, Operators, and Expressions 2.1 Variable Names 2.2 Data Types and Sizes 2.3 Constants 2.4 Declarations 2.5 Arithmetic Operators 2.6 Relational and Logical Operators 2.7 Type Conversions 2.8 Increment and Decrement Operators 2.9 Bitwise Operators 2.10 Assignment Operators and Expressions 2.11 Conditional Expressions 2.12 Precedence and Order of Evaluation Chapter 3. Control Flow 3.1 Statements and Blocks 3.2 If-Else 3.3 Else-If 3.4 Switch 3.5 Loops—While and For 3.6 Loops—Do-while 3.7 Break and Continue 3.8 Goto and Labels Chapter 4. Functions and Program Structure 4.1 Basics of Functions 4.2 Functions Returning Non-integers 4.3 External Variables 4.4 Scope Rules 4.5 Header Files 4.6 Static Variables 4.7 Register Variables 4.8 Block Structure 4.9 Initialization 4.10 Recursion 4.11 The C Preprocessor Chapter 5. Pointers and Arrays 5.1 Pointers and Addresses 5.2 Pointers and Function Arguments 5.3 Pointers and Arrays 5.4 Address Arithmetic 5.5 Character Pointers and Functions 5.6 Pointer Arrays; Pointers to Pointers 5.7 Multi-dimensional Arrays 5.8 Initialization of Pointer Arrays 5.9 Pointers vs. Multi-dimensional Arrays 5.10 Command-line Arguments 5.11 Pointers to Functions 5.12 Complicated Declarations Chapter 6. Structures 6.1 Basics of Structures 6.2 Structures and Functions 6.3 Arrays of Structures 6.4 Pointers to Structures 6.5 Self-referential Structures 6.6 Table Lookup 6.7 Typedef 6.8 Unions 6.9 Bit-fields Chapter 7. Input and Output 7.1 Standard Input and Output 7.2 Formatted Output—Printf 7.3 Variable-length Argument Lists 7.4 Formatted Input—Scanf 7.5 File Access 7.6 Error Handling—Stderr and Exit 7.7 Line Input and Output 7.8 Miscellaneous Functions Chapter 8. The UNIX System Interface 8.1 File Descriptors 8.2 Low Level I/O—Read and Write 8.3 Open, Creat, Close, Unlink 8.4 Random Access—Lseek 8.5 Example—An Implementation of Fopen and Getc 8.6 Example—Listing Directories 8.7 Example—A Storage Allocator Appendix A. Reference Manual A1 Introduction A2 Lexical Conventions A3 Syntax Notation A4 Meaning of Identifiers A5 Objects and Lvalues A6 Conversions A7 Expressions A8 Declarations A9 Statements A10 External Declarations A11 Scope and Linkage A12 Preprocessing A13 Grammar Appendix B. Standard Library B1 Input and Output: B2 Character Class Tests: B3 String Functions: B4 Mathematical Functions: B5 Utility Functions: B6 Diagnostics: B7 Variable Argument Lists: B8 Non-local Jumps: B9 Signals: B10 Date and Time Functions: B11 Implementation-defined Limits: and Appendix C. Summary of Changes Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Z