C in a Nutshell

Peter is a seminar leader and key course developer who has taught thousands of Unix and Windows software engineers. He has substantial experience in software development for computer telephony as the principal developer and cofounder of the IT company Authensis AG in Germany. Peter is also the co-author of several additional publications on C/C++ software development, the majority of which he co-wrote with Ulla Kirch-Prinz, including O'Reilly's "C Pocket Reference."

Tony Crawford is a technical writer and freelance translator based just outside of Berlin, Germany. He has translated books on network administration and ATM in addition to standard software translation efforts. Tony is a native of the United States who attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, Universit de Perpignan in France, and Technische Universit t in Berlin for his undergraduate studies. Tony is a German-English translator.

The latest version of this famous O'Reilly reference offers simple, extensive descriptions of every feature in the C language and runtime library, including multithreading, type-generic macros, and library functions added in the 2011 C standard (C11). You'll find it here, along with a sample example, if you wish to understand the implications of an unfamiliar function and how the standard library wants it to behave.

C in a Nutshell is ideal for experienced C and C++ programmers and includes popular utilities from the GNU software collection. You'll learn how to use GNU Make to construct C programs, compile executable programs from C source code, and test and debug your programs using the GNU debugger.

This authoritative work is divided into three sections:

• Types, statements, pointers, memory management, I/O, and other language principles and features are covered in distinct chapters.
• The C standard library, which includes an overview of standard headers as well as a comprehensive function reference.
• GNU software collection basic C programming tools, with instructions on how to utilize them with the Eclipse IDE

Author: Peter Prinz and Tony Crawford

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