C: A Reference Manual

C: A Reference Manual, 4/e

Samuel P. Harbison, Tartan Laboratories
Guy L. Steele, Thinking Machines, Tartan Laboratories

Published October, 1994 by Prentice Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics

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Summary

This fourth edition of the bestselling C reference covers two important developments: the ISO C Amendment 1 (1994), which specifies new facilities for writing portable, international programs in C; and a discussion of how to write C programs that are compatible with C++.

Features

reveals the weaknesses in the standard C language for creating an international standard.
explains the major additions to C created by ISO C Amendment 1 (1994) for writing portable, international programs.
details three new standard header files: iso646.h, wctype.h, and wchar.h.
explains several new tokens and macros used as replacements for operators and punctuation characters that are not found in some countries character sets.
describes some new formatting codes for the printf/scanf family of functions.
addresses a large number of new functions, plus some types and constants for multibyte and wide characters.
shows how to write Clean C programs that are maximally portable and reusable in C and C++ environments.
includes chapter-end exercises throughout the text, with detailed answers in an Appendix section.
offers an Appendix of the ASCII character set.
includes an Appendix of the syntax of the C language.

Table of Contents

1. The C Language.
2. Lexical Elements.
3. The C Preprocessor.
4. Declarations.
5. Types.
6. Conversions and Representations.
7. Expressions.
8. Statements.
9. Functions.
10. Introduction to C Run-Time Libraries.
11. Standard Language Additions.
12. Character Processing.
13. String Processing.
14. Memory Functions.
15. Input/Output Facilities.
16. Storage Allocation
17. Mathematical Functions.
18. Time and Date Functions.
19. Control Functions.
20. Miscellaneous Functions.