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C Traps and Pitfalls

by Andrew Koenig

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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.

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Even C experts encounter problems that require days of debugging. This book shows how to prevent such problems. Also includes advice for mastering often-misunderstood parts of C.
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Synopsis:

Even C experts come across problems that require days of debugging to fix. This book helps to prevent such problems. C Traps and Pitfalls offers advice on: avoiding off-by-one errors, understanding and constructing function declarations, understanding the subtle relationship between pointers and arrays.

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About the Author

Andrew Koenig is a member of the Large-Scale Programming Research Department at AT&T's Shannon Laboratory, and the Project Editor of the C++ standards committee. A programmer for more than 30 years, 15 of them in C++, he has published more than 150 articles about C++, and speaks on the topic worldwide.

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Table of Contents

Introduction.

1. Lexical Pitfalls.

= is not ==

& and are not && or

Greedy lexical analysis.

Integer constants.

Strings and characters.

2. Syntactic pitfalls.

Understanding function declarations.

Operators don't always have the precedence you want.

Watch those semicolons!

The switch statement.

Calling functions.

The dangling else problem.

3. Semantic pitfalls.

Pointers and arrays.

Pointers are not arrays.

Array declarations as parameters.

Eschew synecdoche.

Null pointers are not null strings.

Counting and asymmetric bounds.

Order of evaluation.

The &&, , and ! operators.

Integer overflow.

Returning a value from main.

4. Linkage.

What is a linker?

Declarations vs. definitions.

Name conflicts and the static modifier.

Arguments, parameters, and return values.

Checking external types.

Header files.

5. Library functions.

Getchar returns an integer.

Updating a sequential file.

Buffered output and memory allocation.

Using errno for error detection.

The signal function.

6. The preprocessor.

Spaces matter in macro definitions.

Macros are not functions.

Macros are not statements.

Macros are not type definitions.

7. Portability pitfalls.

Coping with change.

What's in a name?

How big is an integer?

Are characters signed or unsigned?

Shift operators.

Memory location zero.

How does division truncate?

How big is a random number?

Case conversion.

Free first, then reallocate?

An example of portability problems.

8. Advice and answers.

Advice.

Answers.

Appendix: printf, varargs, and stdarg.

The printf family.

Simple format types.

Modifiers.

Flags.

Variable field width and precision.

Neologisms.

Anachronisms.

Variable argument lists with varargs.h.

Implementing varargs.h.

stdarg.h: the ANSI varargs.h. 0201179288T04062001

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780201179286

Author:

Koenig, Andrew

Publisher:

Addison-Wesley Professional

Location:

Reading, Mass. :

Subject:

Programming Languages - C

Subject:

Programming Languages - General

Subject:

C (computer program language)

Subject:

Technology

Subject:

Computers and computer technology

Subject:

Programming (electronic computers)

Subject:

Language, literature and biography

Subject:

C

Subject:

Computer Languages-C++

Copyright:

1989

Edition Description:

Trade paper

Series Volume:

1233

Publication Date:

January 1989

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

Professional and scholarly

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Yes

Pages:

160

Dimensions:

9.2 x 6 x 0.341 in 225 gr

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"Synopsis" by Gardners, Even C experts come across problems that require days of debugging to fix. This book helps to prevent such problems. C Traps and Pitfalls offers advice on: avoiding off-by-one errors, understanding and constructing function declarations, understanding the subtle relationship between pointers and arrays.