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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)

Why integration is possible?

As we have explained in Chapter 10, Unix – History and Architecture, C revolutionized the way we were developing operating systems. That's not the only magic of C; it also gave us the power to build other general-purpose programming languages on top of it. Nowadays, we call them higher-level programming languages. The compilers of these languages are mostly written in C and if not, they've been developed by other tools and compilers written in C.

A general-purpose programming language that is not able to use or provide the functionalities of a system is not doing anything at all. You can write things with it, but you cannot execute it on any system. While there could be usages for such a programming language from a theoretical point of view, certainly it is not plausible from an industrial point of view. Therefore, the programming language, especially through its compiler, should be able to produce programs that work. As you know...