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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we went through C11, C18, and the most recent C standards, and we explored C11's various new features. Unicode support, anonymous structures and unions, and the new standard threading library (despite the fact that it is not available in recent compilers and platforms to date) are among the most important features that have been introduced in modern C. We will look forward to seeing new versions of the C standard in the future.

In the next chapter, we begin to talk about concurrency and the theory behind concurrent systems. This will begin a long journey through six chapters in which we'll cover multithreading and multi-processing in order to fulfil our purpose to be able to write concurrent systems.