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Extreme C

By : Kamran Amini
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Book Image

Extreme C

5 (2)
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 discussed the issues we might expect to encounter while developing a concurrent program, and the solutions we should employ to resolve them. The following are the main points that we covered in this chapter.

  • We covered concurrency issues. Intrinsic issues exist in all concurrent systems when different interleavings dissatisfy the invariant constraints of a system.
  • We discussed post-synchronization issues that only occur after employing a synchronization technique in a poor and wrong way.
  • We explored the control mechanisms employed to keep the invariant constraints satisfied.
  • Semaphores are key tools in implementing control mechanisms. Mutexes are a special category of semaphores that allow only one task at a time to enter a critical section based on mutual exclusion conditions.
  • Monitor objects that encapsulate a mutex and a condition variable can be used in situations when a task is waiting for a condition to be met.
  • We finally...