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Even C experts come across problems that require days ofdebugging to fix. This book helps to prevent such problems byshowing how C programmers get themselves into trouble. Each ofthe book's many examples has trapped a professional programmer. In addition to its examples, C Traps and Pitfalls offers adviceon: *avoiding off-by-one errors *understanding and constructing function declarations *understanding the subtle relationship between pointers andarrays Distilled from the author's experience over a decade ofprogramming in C, this book is an ideal resource for anyone,novice or expert, who has ever written a C program. 0201179288B04062001
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is among the five "must have" books on the astute C programmer's bookshelf. Actually, it spends little time on the shelf since one refers to it time and time again. This slim volume packs a lot of information about those "gotchas" that still "getcha" (when you least expect it). The Introduction is "Chapter 0", your first hint that Koenig knows and respects the subject. His treatment of unscrambling complex declarations is especially good.
Why a 9 instead of a 10? Simple. Andy: please release a new version! The ANSI/ISO standard is almost ten years old. :)
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book deals almost exclusively with pre-ISO C and much of what it has to say is, as a result, no longer relevant unless you're trying to convert old code into ISO C. The book is also extremely poor value for money at 16.5 pence per page. This is all a great shame as it's very well-written and the author's knowledge of his subject is impressive.
A version updated for ISO C would be a really great book. In the mean time, buy Peter van der Linden's ``Expert C Programming'' instead. It's over twice as thick and only slightly more expensive.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
You must read this book.
27 Dec 1999
Format:Paperback
If you program in C or C++, you must read this book if you want to consider yourself a superior programmer. If you are a college student, definitely read this book. Koenig fills in a lot of gaps left by authors of introductory books on C or C++. Why do I mention C++? Because C++ is far more than just objects and classes. The lower level implementation of functions is still basically C programming. He includes chapters on linkage, the preprocessor, and portability. It is a short book that is definitely worth reading.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Enormously entertaining and exceedingly helpful!
14 May 1997
Format:Paperback
This is among the five "must have" books on the astute C programmer's bookshelf. Actually, it spends little time on the shelf since one refers to it time and time again. This slim volume packs a lot of information about those "gotchas" that still "getcha" (when you least expect it). The Introduction is "Chapter 0", your first hint that Koenig knows and respects the subject. His treatment of unscrambling complex declarations is especially good.
Why a 9 instead of a 10? Simple. Andy: please release a new version! The ANSI/ISO standard is almost ten years old. :)
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Good book for novice C programmers
21 Nov 2008
Format:Paperback
I'd recommend this book for novice C programmers, people with two or less years of coding experience. However, this 1989 book focuses on pre-ANSI C, so the novice would need to be guided by someone that knows the history of C. Some of his statements are false when applied to ANSI C with prototypes (e.g., p.139, it _is_ possible to pass a char argument, if there is a function prototype). I read through and did the problems in this slim book in about three hours. It does have a few nuggets of value, and introduced me to a bug I'd not seen before, the reverse of the "= for ==" bug:
while( (x == fgetc(f)) != EOF )
while( (x == fgetc(f)) != EOF )
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