DICTIONARY OF STANDARD C
Ouvrage 9780130906205 : DICTIONARY OF STANDARD C
it is suitable for all levels of C programmers and includes a broad
range of subject matter including advanced topics. Because it does not
deal with extensions, it is not aimed at any particular kind of
application or set of platforms: it is generic and is applicable to
anyone working with C using any mainstream implementation of C.
Preface
There are many C books on the market, covering a broad range of
applications and platforms, and each comes with some form of
cross-reference index. However, the art of indexing a book is quite
specialized and, as such, is often done by someone who is not intimately
familiar with the book's subject matter. Also, the index of any given
book is obviously limited to the subject matter covered in that book. A
book on data structures in C, for example, is unlikely to have an index
entry for the standard date and time functions.
Many C programmers accumulate more than a few C books during their
careers. Of course, none of these books can be all things to all people.
Therefore, to research a number of specific terms, the reader may have
to scan through the indexes of five or six books to find the relevant
information. And in the case of more advanced topics (such as lvalues
and sequence points), index entries may be missing altogether. This is
where this dictionary becomes useful. Organized in alphabetical order,
it allows terms to be found quickly and easily. The format provides for
a relatively concise definition, in some cases with a small amount of
tutorial material. And, of course, there is extensive cross-referencing
to other entries.
Intended Audience
This book is suitable for C programmers at all levels. Because it does
not deal with extensions, it is not aimed at any particular kind of
application or set of platforms. It is generic and is applicable to
anyone working with C using any mainstream implementation of C.
Limits of this Dictionary
This book is intended as an alphabetizedquickreference guide to C. It is
not an encyclopedia nor is it intended to replace the C standard or your
implementation's documentation. (For information on obtaining a paper or
electronic copy of the C standard refer to www.iso.ch or www.ansi.org.)
Acknowledgments
Some thanks are in order: To Dennis Ritchie for creating the C language;
to Brian Kernighan for so eloquently writing about C, thereby helping to
bootstrap a generation of C programmers; to Jim Brodie, Tom Plum, and
P.J. Plauger for so ably steering the original C standards committee,
X3J11; to Larry Rosler, David Prosser, Frank Farance, and Larry Jones
for their excellent work on editing the C standard; to Randy Hudson and
Bill Seymour for editing the Rationale manual; and to all my colleagues
on the committees X3J11, NCEG, X3J11.1, J11, and WG14 who have assisted
in my numerous C ventures.
Many thanks also go to the reviewers of various drafts of this book:
Nelson Beebe, Jim Brodie, Tom MacDonald, Randy Meyers, Tom Plum, Fred
Tydeman, and Douglas Walls whose suggestions contributed greatly to the
quality of this book.
Finally, thanks to Donald Knuth for his typesetting system TJ&X, and to
Leslie Lamport for his Latex macro package with which this book was
prepared.
Auteur : JAESCHKE
Editeur : PRENTICE HALL
Nombre de pages : 200
Date de publication : 01 2001
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