C Pocket Reference
by Prinz, PeterFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-11-01
Publisher(s): 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 prinz_peter@t-online.de
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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