The C programming Language

Published by Prentice-Hall in 1988

ISBN 0-13-110362-8 (paperback)
ISBN 0-13-110370-9

Contents

• Preface
• Preface to the first edition
• Introduction

1. Chapter 1: A Tutorial Introduction
   1. Getting Started
   2. Variables and Arithmetic Expressions
   3. The for statement
   4. Symbolic Constants
   5. Character Input and Output
      1. File Copying
      2. Character Counting
      3. Line Counting
      4. Word Counting
   6. Arrays
   7. Functions
   8. Arguments - Call by Value
   9. Character Arrays
   10. External Variables and Scope

2. Chapter 2: Types, Operators and Expressions
   1. Variable Names
   2. Data Types and Sizes
   3. Constants
   4. Declarations
   5. Arithmetic Operators
   6. Relational and Logical Operators
   7. Type Conversions
   8. Increment and Decrement Operators
   9. Bitwise Operators
   10. Assignment Operators and Expressions
   11. Conditional Expressions
   12. Precedence and Order of Evaluation

3. Chapter 3: Control Flow
   1. Statements and Blocks
   2. If-Else
   3. Else-If
   4. Switch
   5. Loops - While and For
   6. Loops - Do-While
   7. Break and Continue
   8. Goto and labels

4. Chapter 4: Functions and Program Structure
   1. Basics of Functions
   2. Functions Returning Non-integers
   3. External Variables
   4. Scope Rules
   5. Header Files
   6. Static Variables
   7. Register Variables
   8. Block Structure
   9. Initialization
   10. Recursion
   11. The C Preprocessor
       1. File Inclusion
       2. Macro Substitution
       3. Conditional Inclusion

5. Chapter 5: Pointers and Arrays
   1. Pointers and Addresses
   2. Pointers and Function Arguments
   3. Pointers and Arrays
   4. Address Arithmetic
   5. Character Pointers and Functions
   6. Pointer Arrays; Pointers to Pointers
   7. Multi-dimensional Arrays
   8. Initialization of Pointer Arrays
   9. Pointers vs. Multi-dimensional Arrays
   10. Command-line Arguments
   11. Pointers to Functions
   12. Complicated Declarations

6. Chapter 6: Structures
   1. Basics of Structures
   2. Structures and Functions
   3. Arrays of Structures
   4. Pointers to Structures
   5. Self-referential Structures
   6. Table Lookup
   7. Typedef
   8. Unions
   9. Bit-fields

7. Chapter 7: Input and Output
   1. Standard Input and Output
   2. Formatted Output - printf
   3. Variable-length Argument Lists
   4. Formatted Input - Scanf
   5. File Access
   6. Error Handling - Stderr and Exit
   7. Line Input and Output
   8. Miscellaneous Functions
      1. String Operations
      2. Character Class Testing and Conversion
      3. Ungetc
      4. Command Execution
      5. Storage Management
      6. Mathematical Functions
      7. Random Number generation

8. Chapter 8: The UNIX System Interface
   1. File Descriptors
   2. Low Level I/O - Read and Write
   3. Open, Creat, Close, Unlink
   4. Random Access - Lseek
   5. Example - An implementation of Fopen and Getc
   6. Example - Listing Directories
   7. Example - A Storage Allocator

• Appendix A: Reference Manual
  1. Introduction
  2. Lexical Conventions
  3. Syntax Notation
  4. Meaning of Identifiers
  5. Objects and Lvalues
  6. Conversions
  7. Expressions
  8. Declarations
  9. Statements
  10. External Declarations
  11. Scope and Linkage
  12. Preprocessor
  13. Grammar

• Appendix B: Standard Library
  1. Input and Output: <stdio.h>
     1. File Operations
     2. Formatted Output
     3. Formatted Input
     4. Character Input and Output Functions
     5. Direct Input and Output Functions
     6. File Positioning Functions
     7. Error Functions
  2. Character Class Tests: <ctype.h>
  3. String Functions: <string.h>
  4. Mathematical Functions: <math.h>
  5. Utility Functions: <stdlib.h>
  6. Diagnostics: <assert.h>
  7. Variable Argument Lists: <stdarg.h>
  8. Non-local Jumps: <setjmp.h>
  9. Signals: <signal.h>
  10. Date and Time Functions: <time.h>
  11. Implementation-defined Limits: <limits.h> and <float.h>

• Appendix C: Summary of Changes