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Extreme C

By : Kamran Amini
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Book Image

Extreme C

5 (1)
By: Kamran Amini

Overview of this book

There’s a lot more to C than knowing the language syntax. The industry looks for developers with a rigorous, scientific understanding of the principles and practices. Extreme C will teach you to use C’s advanced low-level power to write effective, efficient systems. This intensive, practical guide will help you become an expert C programmer. Building on your existing C knowledge, you will master preprocessor directives, macros, conditional compilation, pointers, and much more. You will gain new insight into algorithm design, functions, and structures. You will discover how C helps you squeeze maximum performance out of critical, resource-constrained applications. C still plays a critical role in 21st-century programming, remaining the core language for precision engineering, aviations, space research, and more. This book shows how C works with Unix, how to implement OO principles in C, and fully covers multi-processing. In Extreme C, Amini encourages you to think, question, apply, and experiment for yourself. The book is essential for anybody who wants to take their C to the next level.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)

C11

Gathering a new standard for a technology that has been in use for more than 30 years is not an easy task. Millions (if not billions!) of lines of C code exist, and if you are about to introduce new features, this must be done while keeping previous code or features intact. New features shouldn't create new problems for the existing programs, and they should be bug-free. While this view seems to be idealistic, it is something that we should be committed to.

The following PDF document resides on the Open Standards website and contains the worries and thoughts that people in the C community had in mind before starting to shape C11: http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/wg14/www/docs/n1250.pdf. It would be useful to give it a read because it will introduce you to the experience of authoring a new standard for a programming language that several thousand pieces of software have been built upon.

Finally, with these things in mind, we consider the release of C11. When C11...