The C programming language by Kernighan, Brian W. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Preface Preface to the first edition Chapter 1 - A Tutorial Introduction

1.1 Getting Started 1.2 Variables and Arithmetic Expressions 1.3 The for statement 1.4 Symbolic Constants 1.5 Character Input and Output 1.7 Functions 1.8 Arguments - Call by Value 1.9 Character Arrays 1.10 External Variables and Scope

Chapter 2 - Types, Operators and Expressions

2.1 Variable Names 2.2 Data Types and Sizes 2.3 Constants 2.4 Declarations 2.5 Arithmetic Operators 2.6 Relational and Logical Operators 2.8 Increment and Decrement Operators 2.9 Bitwise Operators 2.10 Assignment Operators and Expressions 2.11 Conditional Expressions 2.12 Precedence and Order of Evaluation

Chapter 3 - Control Flow

3.1 Statements and Blocks 3.2 If-Else 3.3 Else-If 3.4 Switch 3.5 Loops - While and For 3.6 Loops - Do-While 3.7 Break and Continue 3.8 Goto and labels

Chapter 4 - Functions and Program Structure

4.1 Basics of Functions 4.2 Functions Returning Non-integers 4.4 Scope Rules 4.5 Header Files 4.6 Static Variables 4.7 Register Variables 4.8 Block Structure 4.9 Initialization 4.10 Recursion 4.11 The C Preprocessor

Chapter 5 - Pointers and Arrays

5.1 Pointers and Addresses 5.2 Pointers and Function Arguments 5.3 Pointers and Arrays 5.4 Address Arithmetic 5.5 Character Pointers and Functions 5.6 Pointer Arrays; Pointers to Pointers 5.7 Multi-dimensional Arrays 5.8 Initialization of Pointer Arrays 5.9 Pointers vs. Multi-dimensional Arrays 5.10 Command-line Arguments 5.11 Pointers to Functions 5.12 Complicated Declarations

Chapter 6 - Structures

6.1 Basics of Structures 6.3 Arrays of Structures 6.4 Pointers to Structures 6.5 Self-referential Structures 6.6 Table Lookup 6.7 Typedef 6.8 Unions 6.9 Bit-fields

Chapter 7 - Input and Output

7.1 Standard Input and Output 7.2 Formatted Output - printf 7.3 Variable-length Argument Lists 7.4 Formatted Input - Scanf 7.5 File Access 7.6 Error Handling - Stderr and Exit 7.7 Line Input and Output 7.8 Miscellaneous Functions

Chapter 8 - The UNIX System Interface

8.1 File Descriptors 8.2 Low Level I/O - Read and Write 8.3 Open, Creat, Close, Unlink 8.4 Random Access - Lseek 8.5 Example - An implementation of Fopen and Getc 8.6 Example - Listing Directories 8.7 Example - A Storage Allocator

Appendix A - Reference Manual A.1 Introduction

A.2 Lexical Conventions A.3 Syntax Notation A.4 Meaning of Identifiers A.5 Objects and Lvalues A.6 Conversions A.7 Expressions A.8 Declarations A.9 Statements A.10 External Declarations A.11 Scope and Linkage A.12 Preprocessing A.13 Grammar

Appendix B - Standard Library

B.1 Input and Output: <stdio.h> B.2 Character Class Tests: <ctype.h> B.3 String Functions: <string.h> B.4 Mathematical Functions: <math.h> B.5 Utility Functions: <stdlib.h> B.6 Diagnostics: <assert.h> B.8 Non-local Jumps: <setjmp.h> B.9 Signals: <signal.h> B.10 Date and Time Functions: <time.h>

Appendix C - Summary of Changes