Standard C Library, The

Prentice Hall's most important C programming title in years. A companion volume to Kernighan & Ritchie's C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE. A collection of reusable functions (code for building data structures, code for performing math functions and scientific calculations, etc.) which will save C programmers time and money especially when working on large programming projects. The C Library is part of the ANSI (American National Standard Institute) for the C Language. This new book contains the complete code for the library. It covers elements of the library with which even the most experienced C programmers are not familiar such as internationalization (the ability to write programs that can adapt to different cultural locales, for example, using the C library, programmers can write software that manipulates large character sets such as Kanji). Structured like the Standard C Library, it contains 15 headers declaring or defining all of the names in the library. A separate chapter covers each header, including excerpts from relevant portions of the C Standard showing all codes needed to implement each portion of the library and explaining why it is necessary. The book teaches readers the concepts and design issues associated with library building. Using this book, programemrs will be less likely to re-code something that already exists in a given program. Plauger is one of the world's leading experts on C and the C Library. Preface viii Chapter 0: Introduction 1 PART I: The Standard C Language Chapter 1: Characters 9 Chapter 2: Preprocessing 15 Chapter 3: Syntax 29 Chapter 4: Types 39 Chapter 5: Declarations 51 Chapter 6: Functions 67 Chapter 7: Expressions 83 PART II: The Standard C Library Chapter 8: Library 111 Chapter 9: 129 Chapter 10: 131 Chapter 11: 135 Chapter 12: 137 Chapter 13: 141 Chapter 14: 143 Chapter 15: 145 Chapter 16: 149 Chapter 17: 153 Chapter 18: 155 Chapter 19: 159 Chapter 20: 161 Chapter 21: 163 Chapter 22: 173 Chapter 23: 181 Chapter 24: 185 Chapter 25: 189 Chapter 26: 203 Appendixes Appendix A: Portability 209 Appendix B: Names 219 Appendix C: References 231 Index 233 A hypertext version of a standard reference to Standard C computer programming language, using the same Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) increasingly familiar to people from the World Wide Web. The material is partitioned into pages that are connected with hot links between related subjects. Not a tutorial on either C or programming. Includes a 3.5" disk. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.