Product Description

This is the first comprehensive treatment of ANSI and ISO standards for the C Library. Written by a world renowned author on the C programming language and the head of the ANSI committee that standardized the C Library, this new guide contains the complete code of the Standard C Library and includes practical advice on using all 15 headers. All C programmers will benefit from the book's focus on the concepts, design issues, and trade-offs associated with library building; using this book, programmers will make the best use of the C Library and will learn to build programs with maximum portability and reusability.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #428785 in Books
• Published on: 1991-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

Customer Reviews

Needs updating and better printing
The printing is nasty - the text is printed in a 90% stipple rather than 100% black, which is hard on the eyes. The layout is rudimentary.

There is no coverage of C99, and almost nothing on 64bit issues (there is, however, a fair bit on 16bit issues).

Whilst the C library is covered, I had the impression that quite a few things were not implemented to 'industrial strength' in order to keep the printed code size down.

Excellent reference that has source code
When questions arise about standard library functions then this book answers them, for "C" anyway. The code covers functions you'll never look twice at until you have a problem with them.