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Preface About This Book The Success ofC Standards Hosted and Free-Standing Environments Typographical conventions Order of topics Example programs Deference to Higher Authority Address for the Standard Chapter1. An Introduction toC 1.1. The form of a Cprogram 1.2. Functions 1.3. A description of Example1.1 1.4. Some more programs 1.5. Terminology 1.6. Summary 1.7. Exercises Chapter2. Variables and Arithmetic 2.1. Some fundamentals 2.2. The alphabet ofC 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 Chapter3. 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 Chapter4. Functions 4.1. Changes 4.2. The type of functions 4.3. Recursion and argument passing 4.4. Linkage 4.5. Summary 4.6. Exercises Chapter5. 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 Chapter6. 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 Chapter7. The Preprocessor 7.1. Effect of the Standard 7.2. How the preprocessor works 7.3. Directives 7.4. Summary 7.5. Exercises Chapter8. Specialized Areas ofC 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 Chapter9. Libraries 9.1. Introduction 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 Chapter10. 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 Chapter1 Chapter2 Chapter3 Chapter4 Chapter5 Chapter6 Chapter7 Copyright and disclaimer