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This is the first comprehensive treatment of ANSI and ISO standards for the C Library. Written by a world renowned author on the C programming language and the head of the ANSI committee that standardized the C Library, this new guide contains the complete code of the Standard C Library and includes practical advice on using all 15 headers. All C programmers will benefit from the book's focus on the concepts, design issues, and trade-offs associated with library building; using this book, programmers will make the best use of the C Library and will learn to build programs with maximum portability and reusability.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The printing is nasty - the text is printed in a 90% stipple rather than 100% black, which is hard on the eyes. The layout is rudimentary.
There is no coverage of C99, and almost nothing on 64bit issues (there is, however, a fair bit on 16bit issues).
Whilst the C library is covered, I had the impression that quite a few things were not implemented to 'industrial strength' in order to keep the printed code size down.
There is no coverage of C99, and almost nothing on 64bit issues (there is, however, a fair bit on 16bit issues).
Whilst the C library is covered, I had the impression that quite a few things were not implemented to 'industrial strength' in order to keep the printed code size down.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When questions arise about standard library functions then this book answers them, for "C" anyway. The code covers functions you'll never look twice at until you have a problem with them.
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48 of 50 people found the following review helpful
Written by Plauger in when he was at his sharpest.
14 May 1997
Format:Paperback
P.J. Plauger was operating at full-tilt when he wrote this excellent guide to the implementation and use of the C library. In particular, his treament (and history) of <stdio.h> is outstanding. Unfortunately, the Plauger of recent history is apparently being held captive by Microsoft. His "C/C++ User's Journal" is brimming with non-portable Windows topics of little value to those interested in Standard C and, of course, the Unix platform...where C began. Plauger has apparently forgotten the roots of the C programming language. Nonetheless, this is among the five "must have" books for the serious C programmer
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
The Definitive Book on the Standard C Library
23 Aug 2000
Format:Paperback
This outstanding book integrates three treatments of the Standard C library: The straight text from the standard, a commentary, and a prototype implementation. All of these show Plauger at his best.
Even though the implementation does not always look elegant (and unfortunately is not open source), it provides a high quality implementation of each aspect of the standard and is extremely instructive (I found the stdio formatting code and the math routines particularly interesting).
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Very nice about Standard C Library implementation
22 Oct 2005
Format:Paperback
First of all (also metioned by other reviewers), the layout of this book is horror. Everything is printed behind each other (not very much whitespace).
This book is a nice reference, but maybe you can better use Internet nowadays.
What make this book really nice, is that it offers implementations for the standard C library. So if you're looking for a implementation for sqrt/sin/tan/printf/etc. you will find it in this book. This is a really nice way to get some insight how an implementation of a Standard C Library could work.
This book is a nice reference, but maybe you can better use Internet nowadays.
What make this book really nice, is that it offers implementations for the standard C library. So if you're looking for a implementation for sqrt/sin/tan/printf/etc. you will find it in this book. This is a really nice way to get some insight how an implementation of a Standard C Library could work.
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