The Standard C Library

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. "The Standard C Library shows you how to use all of the library functions mandated by the ANSI and ISO Standards for the programming language C. To help you understand how to use the library, this book also shows you how to implement it. You see approximately 9,000 lines of tested, working code that is highly portable across diverse computer architectures." "The Standard C Library explains how the library was meant to be used and how it can be used. It places particular emphasis on features added to C as part of the C Standard. These features include support for multiple locales (cultural conventions) and very large character sets (such as Kanji)." "The code presented in this book has been tested with C compilers from Borland, Saber, Project Gnu, Sun, UNIX, and VAX, ULTRIX. It has passed the widely used Plum Hall Validation Suite tests for library functions. It has also survived an assortment of public-domain programs designed to stress C implementations and illuminate their darker corners. The mathematical functions are particularly well-engineered and tested." "Finally, The Standard C Library shows you many principles of library design in general. You learn how to design and implement libraries that are highly cohesive and reusable. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET