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Preface
About This Book
The Success of C
Standards
Hosted and Free-Standing
Environments
Typographical conventions
Order of topics
Example programs
Deference to Higher Authority
Address for the Standard
Chapter 1. An Introduction to C
1.1. The form of a C program
1.2. Functions
1.3. A description of Example 1.1
1.4. Some more programs
1.5. Terminology
1.6. Summary
1.7. Exercises
Chapter 2. Variables and Arithmetic
2.1. Some fundamentals
2.2. The alphabet of C
2.3. The Textual Structure of
Programs
2.4. Keywords and identifiers
2.5. Declaration of variables
2.6. Real types
2.7. Integral types
2.8. Expressions and arithmetic
2.9. Constants
2.10. Summary
2.11. Exercises
Chapter 3. Control of Flow and Logical
Expressions
3.1. The Task ahead
3.2. Control of flow
3.3. More logical expressions
3.4. Strange operators
3.5. Summary
3.6. Exercises
Chapter 4. Functions
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4.1. Changes
4.2. The type of functions
4.3. Recursion and argument
passing
4.4. Linkage
4.5. Summary
4.6. Exercises
Chapter 5. Arrays and Pointers
5.1. Opening shots
5.2. Arrays
5.3. Pointers
5.4. Character handling
5.5. Sizeof and storage allocation
5.6. Pointers to functions
5.7. Expressions involving pointers
5.8. Arrays, the & operator and
function declarations
5.9. Summary
5.10. Exercises
Chapter 6. Structured Data Types
6.1. History
6.2. Structures
6.3. Unions
6.4. Bitfields
6.5. Enums
6.6. Qualifiers and derived types
6.7. Initialization
6.8. Summary
6.9. Exercises
Chapter 7. The Preprocessor
7.1. Effect of the Standard
7.2. How the preprocessor works
7.3. Directives
7.4. Summary
7.5. Exercises
Chapter 8. Specialized Areas of C
8.1. Government Health Warning
8.2. Declarations, Definitions and
Accessibility
8.3. Typedef
8.4. Const and volatile
8.5. Sequence points
8.6. Summary
Chapter 9. Libraries
9.1. Introduction
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9.2. Diagnostics
9.3. Character handling
9.4. Localization
9.5. Limits
9.6. Mathematical functions
9.7. Non-local jumps
9.8. Signal handling
9.9. Variable numbers of
arguments
9.10. Input and output
9.11. Formatted I/O
9.12. Character I/O
9.13. Unformatted I/O
9.14. Random access functions
9.15. General Utilities
9.16. String handling
9.17. Date and time
9.18. Summary
Chapter 10. Complete Programs in C
10.1. Putting it all together
10.2. Arguments to main
10.3. Interpreting program
arguments
10.4. A pattern matching program
10.5. A more ambitious example
10.6. Afterword
Answers to Exercises
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
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