Contents

• 1. Declarations and Initializations
  • 1.1 Basic Type
  • 1.2 Pointer Declarations
  • 1.3 Declaration Style
  • 1.4 Storage Class
  • 1.5 Typedefs
  • 1.6 The const qualifier
  • 1.7 Complex Declarations
  • 1.8 Array Sizes
  • 1.9 Declaraction Problems
  • 1.10 Namespace
  • 1.11 Initialization
  
  
• 2. Structures, Unions, and Enumerations
  • 2.1 Structure Declaration
  • 2.2 Structure Operations
  • 2.3 Structure Padding
  • 2.4 Accessing Members
  • 2.5 Miscellaneous Structure Questions
  • 2.6 Unions
  • 2.7 Enumerations
  • 2.8 Bitfields
  
  
• 3. Expressions
  • 3.1 Evaluation Order
  • 3.2 Other Expression Questions
  • 3.3 Preserving Rules
  
  
• 4. Pointer
  • 4.1 Basic Pointer Use
  • 4.2 Pointer Manipulations
  • 4.3 Pointers as Function Parameters
  • 4.4 Miscellaneous Pointer Use
  
  
• 5. Null Pointers
  • 5.1 Null Pointers and Null Pointer Constants
  • 5.2 The NULL Macro
  • 5.3 Retrospective
  • 5.4 What's Really At Address 0?
  
  
• 6. Arrays and Pointers
  • 6.1 Basic Relationship of Arrays and Pointers
  • 6.2 Arrays Can't Be Assigned
  • 6.3 Retrospective
  • 6.4 Pointers to Arrays
  • 6.5 Dynamic Array Allocation
  • 6.6 Functions and Multidimensional Arrays
  • 6.7 Sizes of Arrays
  
  
• 7. Memory Allocation
  • 7.1 Basic Allocation Problems
  • 7.2 Calling malloc
  • 7.3 Problems with malloc
  • 7.4 Freeing Memory
  • 7.5 Sizes of Allocated Blocks
  • 7.6 Other Allocation Functions
  
  
• 8. Characters and Strings
• 9. Boolean Expressions and Variables
• 10. C Preprocessor
  • 10.1 Conditional Compilation
  • 10.2 Fancier Processing
  • 10.3 Macros with Variable-Length Argument Lists
  
  
• 11. ANSI/ISO Standard C
  • 11.1 The Standard
  • 11.2 Function Prototypes
  • 11.3 The const Qualifier
  • 11.4 Using main()
  • 11.5 Preprocessor Features
  • 11.6 Other ANSI C Issues
  • 11.7 Old or Nonstandard Compilers
  • 11.8 Compliance
  • 11.9 volatile qualifier
  • 11.10 restrict qualifier
  • 11.11 Flexible Array Members
  • 11.12 Types
  
  
• 12. The Standard I/O Library
  • 12.1 Basic I/O
  • 12.2 printf Formats
  • 12.3 scanf Formats
  • 12.4 scanf Problems
  • 12.5 Other stdio Functions
  • 12.6 Opening and Manipulating Files
  • 12.7 Redirecting stdin and stdout
  • 12.8 ``Binary'' I/O
  
  
• 13. Library Functions
  • 13.1 String Functions
  • 13.2 Sorting
  • 13.3 Date and Time
  • 13.4 Random Numbers
  • 13.5 Other Library Functions
  
  
• 14. Floating Point
• 15. Variable-Length Argument Lists
  • 15.1 Calling Varargs Functions
  • 15.2 Implementing Varargs Functions
  • 15.3 Extracting Variable-Length Arguments
  • 15.4 Harder Problems
  
  
• 16. Strange Problems
• 17. Style
• 18. Tools and Resources
• 19. System Dependencies
• 20. Miscellaneous
  • 20.1 Miscellaneous Techniques
  • 20.2 Bits and Bytes
  • 20.3 Efficiency
  • 20.4 switch Statements
  • 20.5 Miscellaneous Language Features
  • 20.6 Other Languages
  • 20.7 Algorithms
  • 20.8 Trivia
  
  
• 21. Extensions
  • 21.1 miscellaneous code
  • 21.2 Debugging
  • 21.3 Internationalization
  
  
• 22. ISO C Standard Consideration
• Bibliography