Expert C Programming Deep C Secrets 1st Edition by Peter van der Linden 0131774298 9780131774292

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ISBN 10: 0131774298

ISBN 13: 9780131774292

Author: Peter van der Linden

This book is for the knowledgeable C programmer, this is a second book that gives the C programmers advanced tips and tricks. This book will help the C programmer reach new heights as a professional. Organized to make it easy for the reader to scan to sections that are relevant to their immediate needs.

Expert C Programming Deep C Secrets 1st Table of contents:

1. C Through the Mists of Time

The Prehistory of C

Early Experiences with C

The Standard I/O Library and C Preprocessor

K&R C

The Present Day: ANSI C

It’s Nice, but Is It Standard?

Translation Limits

The Structure of the ANSI C Standard

Reading the ANSI C Standard for Fun, Pleasure, and Profit

How Quiet is a “Quiet Change”?

Some Light Relief—The Implementation-Defined Effects of Pragmas . . .

2. It’s Not a Bug, It’s a Language Feature

Why Language Features Matter—The Way the Fortran Bug Really Happened!

Sins of Commission

Sins of Mission

Sins of Omission

Some Light Relief—Some Features Really Are Bugs!

3. Unscrambling Declarations in C

Syntax Only a Compiler Could Love

How a Declaration Is Formed

The Precedence Rule

Unscrambling C Declarations by Diagram

typedef Can Be Your Friend

Difference Between typedef int x[10] and #define x int[10]

What typedef struct foo { … foo; } foo; Means

The Piece of Code that Understandeth All Parsing

Some Light Relief—Software to Bite the Wax Tadpole…

4. The Shocking Truth: C Arrays and Pointers Are NOT the Same!

Arrays Are NOT Pointers!

Why Doesn’t My Code Work?

What’s a Declaration? What’s a Definition?

How Arrays and Pointers Are Accessed

Diagram A A Subscripted Array Reference

Diagram B A Pointer Reference

Diagram C A Subscripted Pointer Reference

Match Your Declarations to the Definition

Other Differences Between Arrays and Pointers

Some Light Relief—Fun with Palindromes!

5. Thinking of Linking

Libraries, Linking, and Loading

The Benefits of Dynamic Linking

Five Special Secrets of Linking with Libraries

Watch Out for Interpositioning

Generating Linker Report Files

Some Light Relief—Look Who’s Talking: Challenging the Turing Test

6. Poetry in Motion: Runtime Data Structures

a.out and a.out Folklore

Segments

What the OS Does with Your a.out

What the C Runtime Does with Your a.out

What Happens When a Function Gets Called: The Procedure Activation Record

The auto and static keywords

Threads of Control

setjmp and longjmp

The Stack Segment Under UNIX

The Stack Segment Under MS-DOS

Helpful C Tools

Some Light Relief—Programming Puzzles at CMU

For Advanced Students Only

7. Thanks for the Memory

The Intel 80×86 Family

The Intel 80×86 Memory Model and How It Got That Way

Virtual Memory

Cache Memory

The Data Segment and Heap

Memory Leaks

Bus Error, Take the Train

Some Light Relief—The Thing King and the Paging Game

8. Why Programmers Can’t Tell Halloween from Christmas Day

The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures

Making a Glyph from Bit Patterns

Types Changed While You Wait

Prototype Painfulness

Getting a Char Without a Carriage Return

Implementing a Finite State Machine in C

Software Is Harder than Hardware!

How and Why to Cast

Some Light Relief—The International Obfuscated C Code Competition

9. More about Arrays

When an Array Is a Pointer

Why the Confusion?

Why C Treats Array Parameters as Pointers

Indexing a Slice

Arrays and Pointers Interchangeability Summary

C Has Multidimensional Arrays…

…But Every Other Language Calls Them “Arrays of Arrays”

How Multidimensional Arrays Break into Components

How Arrays Are Laid Out in Memory

How to Initialize Arrays

Some Light Relief—Hardware/Software Trade-Offs

10. More About Pointers

The Layout of Multidimensional Arrays

An Array of Pointers Is an “Iliffe Vector”

Using Pointers for Ragged Arrays

Passing a One-Dimensional Array to a Function

Using Pointers to Pass a Multidimensional Array to a Function

Using Pointers to Return an Array from a Function

Using Pointers to Create and Use Dynamic Arrays

Some Light Relief—The Limitations of Program Proofs

11. You Know C, So C++ is Easy!

Allez-OOP!

Abstraction—Extracting Out the Essential Characteristics of a Thing

Encapsulation—Grouping Together Related Types, Data, and Functions

Showing Some Class—Giving User-Defined Types the Same Privileges as Predefined Types

Availability

Declarations

How to Call a Method

Inheritance—Reusing Operations that Are Already Defined

Multiple Inheritance—Deriving from Two or More Base Classes

Overloading—Having One Name for the Same Action on Different Types

How C++ Does Operator Overloading

Input/Output in C++

Polymorphism—Runtime Binding

Explanation

How C++ Does Polymorphism

Fancy Pants Polymorphism

Other Corners of C++

If I Was Going There, I Wouldn’t Start from Here

It May Be Crufty, but It’s the Only Game in Town

Some Light Relief—The Dead Computers Society

Some Final Light Relief—Your Certificate of Merit!

Further Reading

Appendix: Secrets of Programmer Job Interviews

Silicon Valley Programmer Interviews

How Can You Detect a Cycle in a Linked List?

What Are the Different C Increment Statements For?

How Is a Library Call Different from a System Call?

How Is a File Descriptor Different from a File Pointer?

Write Some Code to Determine if a Variable Is Signed or Not

What Is the Time Complexity of Printing the Values in a Binary Tree?

Give Me a String at Random from This File

Some Light Relief—How to Measure a Building with a Barometer

Further Reading

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