TABLE OF CONTENTS
0 INTRODUCTION AND BASICS 1
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0 C - AN OVERVIEW 1
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1 BRIEF HISTORY OF C LANGUAGE 2
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2 ANSI C STANDARD 3
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3 THE FUTURE OF C LANGUAGE 4
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4 THE LIFETIME OF A C PROGRAM 5
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5 SOURCE FILES 6
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6 TRANSLATION PHASES 6
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7 START-UP...
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0 INTRODUCTION AND BASICS 1
0.
0 C - AN OVERVIEW 1
0.
1 BRIEF HISTORY OF C LANGUAGE 2
0.
2 ANSI C STANDARD 3
0.
3 THE FUTURE OF C LANGUAGE 4
0.
4 THE LIFETIME OF A C PROGRAM 5
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5 SOURCE FILES 6
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6 TRANSLATION PHASES 6
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7 START-UP MODULE 7
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8 MAIN() 7
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9 COMMAND LINE ARGUMENTS 8
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10 PROGRAM TERMINATION 9
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11 STRUCTURE OF A C PROGRAM IN MEMORY 9
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12 STRUCTURE OF A C PROGRAM IN MEMORY 10
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13 ERRORS 13
1 PROGRAM DESIGN 14
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1 PORTABILITY 14
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2 LANGUAGE FEATURES TO AVOID 20
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3 PERFORMANCE AND OPTIMIZATION CONSIDERATIONS 20
2 CONSTANTS, TYPES AND TYPE CONVERSIONS 23
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1 VARIABLES 23
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2 TYPES OF VARIABLES 24
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3 CONSTANTS 25
2.
4 SCALAR TYPE 26
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5 AGGREGATE TYPE 34
2.
6 VOID TYPE 34
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7 FUNCTION TYPE 34
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8 DERIVED TYPES 34
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9 INCOMPLETE TYPES 34
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10 TYPE SPECIFIERS 35
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11 TYPE QUALIFIERS 37
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12 LIMITS OF THE ARITHMETIC TYPES 40
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13 CREATING TYPE NAMES 41
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14 TYPE EQUIVALENCE 46
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15 TYPE CONVERSIONS 46
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16 EXPLICIT CONVERSIONS 4
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