Superduper

The C programming Language
By Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie. 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. FileCopying 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 DecrementOperators 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 ReturningNon-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. CharacterPointers 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-referentialStructures 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. CommandExecution 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: 1. File Operations 2. Formatted Output 3. Formatted Input 4. Character Input and Output Functions 5. Direct Input and OutputFunctions 6. File Positioning Functions 7. Error Functions 2. Character Class Tests: 3. String Functions: 4. Mathematical Functions: 5. Utility Functions: 6. Diagnostics: 7. Variable Argument Lists: 8. Non-local Jumps: 9. Signals: 10. Date and Time Functions: 11. Implementation-defined Limits: and Appendix C: Summary of Changes

Preface
The computing world has undergone a revolutionsince the publication of The C Programming Language in 1978. Big computers are much bigger, and personal computers have capabilities that rival mainframes of a decade ago. During this time, C has changed too, although only modestly, and it has spread far beyond its origins as the language of the UNIX operating system. The growing popularity of C, the changes in the language over the years, and...