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Great introductory material to the ‘new’ C. This isn’t your grandfather’s C anymore!
Modern C focuses on the new and unique features of modern C programming. The book is based on the latest C standards and offers an up-to-date perspective on this tried-and-true language.
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LEVEL 0 Encounter
1 Getting started
1.1 Imperative programming
1.2 Compiling and running
Summary
2 The principal structure of a program
2.1 Grammar
2.2 Declarations
2.3 Definitions
2.4 Statements
2.4.1 Iteration
2.4.2 Function calls
2.4.3 Function return
Summary
LEVEL 1 Acquaintance
3 Everything is about control
3.1 Conditional execution
3.2 Iterations
3.3 Multiple selection
Summary
4 Expressing computations
4.1 Arithmetic
4.1.1 +, -, and *
4.1.2 Division and remainder
4.2 Operators that modify objects
4.3 Boolean context
4.3.1 Comparison
4.3.2 Logic
4.4 The ternary or conditional operator
4.5 Evaluation order
Summary
5 Basic values and data
5.1 The abstract state machine
5.1.1 Values
5.1.2 Types
5.1.3 Binary representation and the abstract state machine
5.1.4 Optimization
5.2 Basic types
5.3 Specifying values
5.3.1 Complex constants
5.4 Implicit conversions
5.5 Initializers
5.6 Named constants
5.6.1 Read-only objects
5.6.2 Enumerations
5.6.3 Macros
5.6.4 Compound literals
5.7 Binary representions
5.7.1 Unsigned integers
5.7.2 Bit sets and bitwise operators
5.7.3 Shift operators
5.7.4 Boolean values
5.7.5 Signed integers
5.7.6 Fixed-width integer types
5.7.7 Floating-point data
Summary
6 Derived data types
6.1 Arrays
6.1.1 Array declaration
6.1.2 Array operations
6.1.3 Array length
6.1.4 Arrays as parameters
6.1.5 Strings are special
6.2 Pointers as opaque types
6.3 Structures
6.4 New names for types: type aliases
Summary
7 Functions
7.1 Simple functions
7.2 main is special
7.3 Recursion
Summary
8 C library functions
8.1 General properties of the C library and its functions
8.1.1 Headers
8.1.2 Interfaces
8.1.3 Error checking
8.1.4 Bounds-checking interfaces
8.1.5 Platform preconditions
8.2 Mathematics
8.3 Input, output, and file manipulation
8.3.1 Unformatted text output
8.3.2 Files and streams
8.3.3 Text IO
8.3.4 Formatted output
8.3.5 Unformatted text input
8.4 String processing and conversion
8.5 Time
8.6 Runtime environment settings
8.7 Program termination and assertions
Summary
LEVEL 2 Cognition
9 Style
9.1 Formatting
9.2 Naming
Summary
10 Organization and documentation
10.1 Interface documentation
10.2 Implementation
10.2.1 Macros
10.2.2 Pure functions
Summary
11 Pointers
11.1 Pointer operations
11.2 Pointers and structures
11.3 Pointers and arrays
11.3.1 Array and pointer access are the same
11.3.2 Array and pointer parameters are the same
11.4 Function pointers
Summary
12 The C memory model
12.1 A uniform memory model
12.2 Unions
12.3 Memory and state
12.4 Pointers to unspecific objects
12.5 Explicit conversions
12.6 Effective types
12.7 Alignment
Summary
13 Storage
13.1 malloc and friends
13.1.1 A complete example with varying array size
13.1.2 Ensuring consistency of dynamic allocations
13.2 Storage duration, lifetime, and visibility
13.2.1 Static storage duration
13.2.2 Automatic storage duration
13.3 Digression: using objects "before" their definition
13.4 Initialization
13.5 Digression: a machine model
Summary
14 More involved processing and IO
14.1 Text processing
14.2 Formatted input
14.3 Extended character sets
14.4 Binary streams
14.5 Error checking and cleanup
Summary
LEVEL 3 Experience
15 Performance
15.1 Inline functions
15.2 Using restrict qualifiers
15.3 Measurement and inspection
Summary
16 Function-like macros
16.1 How function-like macros work
16.2 Argument checking
16.3 Accessing the calling context
16.4 Default arguments
16.5 Variable-length argument lists
16.5.1 Variadic macros
16.5.2 A detour: variadic functions
16.6 Type-generic programming
Summary
17 Variations in control flow
17.1 A complicated example
17.2 Sequencing
17.3 Short jumps
17.4 Functions
17.5 Long jumps
17.6 Signal handlers
Summary
18 Threads 325
18.1 Simple inter-thread control
18.2 Race-free initialization and destruction
18.3 Thread-local data
18.4 Critical data and critical sections
18.5 Communicating through condition variables
18.6 More sophisticated thread management
Summary
19 Atomic access and memory consistency
19.1 The ``happened before'' relation
19.2 C library calls that provide synchronization
19.3 Sequential consistency
19.4 Other consistency models
Summary
About the Technology
C is extraordinarily modern for a 50-year-old programming language. Whether you’re writing embedded code, low-level system routines, or high-performance applications, C is up to the challenge. This unique book, based on the latest C standards, exposes a modern perspective of this tried-and-true language.
About the book
Modern C introduces you to modern day C programming, emphasizing the unique and new features of this powerful language. For new C coders, it starts with fundamentals like structure, grammar, compilation, and execution. From there, you’ll advance to control structures, data types, operators, and functions, as you gain a deeper understanding of what’s happening under the hood. In the final chapters, you’ll explore performance considerations, reentrancy, atomicity, threads, and type-generic programming. You’ll code as you go with concept-reinforcing exercises and skill-honing challenges along the way.
What's inside
- Operators and functions
- Pointers, threading, and atomicity
- C’s memory model
- Hands-on exercises
