Effective C : An Introduction to Professional C Programming

Name: Effective C : An Introduction to Professional C Programming
Author: Robert C. Seacord
ISBN: 9781718501041

by Robert C. Seacord

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Effective C : An Introduction to Professional C Programming

by Robert C. Seacord

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A detailed introduction to the C programming language for experienced programmers. The world runs on code written in the C programming language, yet most schools begin the curriculum with Python or Java. Effective C bridges this gap and brings C into the modern era--covering the modern C17 Standard as well as potential C2x features. With the aid of this instant classic, you'll soon be writing professional, portable, and secure C programs to power robust systems and solve real-world problems. Robert C. Seacord introduces C and the C Standard Library while addressing best practices, common errors, and open debates in the C community. Developed together with other C Standards committee experts, Effective C will teach you how to debug, test, and analyze C programs. You'll benefit from Seacord's concise explanations of C language constructs and behaviors, and from his 40 years of coding experience. You'll learn: - How to identify and handle undefined behavior in a C program - The range and representations of integers and floating-point values - How dynamic memory allocation works and how to use nonstandard functions - How to use character encodings and types - How to perform I/O with terminals and filesystems using C Standard streams and POSIX file descriptors - How to understand the C compiler's translation phases and the role of the preprocessor - How to test, debug, and analyze C programs Effective C will teach you how to write professional, secure, and portable C code that will stand the test of time and help strengthen the foundation of the computing world.

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LanguageEnglish

PublisherNo Starch Press, Incorporated

Publication DateAug. 4th, 2020

ISBN-139781718501041

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"A worthwhile addition to a C programmer's bookshelf."
         -- Ian Bruntlett, ACCU

"Effective C will teach you C programming for the modern era...This book's emphasis on the security aspects of C programming is unmatched. My personal recommendation is that, after reading it, you use all of the available tools it presents to avoid undefined behavior in the C programs you write. --Pascal Cuoq, Chief Scientist, TrustInSoft

"An excellent introduction to Modern C."
         -- Francis Glassborow, ACCU

"A really, really good C book that does not talk down to you."
         -- Stephan Neuhaus, @stephanneuhaus1

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Foreword	p. xvii
Foreword	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Introduction	p. xxiii
A Brief History of C	p. xxiv
The C Standard	p. xxv
The CERT C Coding Standard	p. xxvi
Who This Book Is For	p. xxvi
What's in This Book	p. xxvi
Getting Started With C	p. 1
Developing Your First C Program	p. 1
Compiling and Running Your Program	p. 2
Preprocessor Directives	p. 3
The main Function	p. 3
Checking Function Return Values	p. 5
Formatted Output	p. 5
Editors and Integrated Development Environments	p. 6
Compilers	p. 8
GNU Compiler Collection	p. 8
Clang	p. 8
Microsoft Visual Studio	p. 9
Portability	p. 9
Implementation-Defined Behavior	p. 10
Unspecified Behavior	p. 10
Undefined Behavior	p. 10
Locale-Specific Behavior and Common Extensions	p. 11
Summary	p. 11
Objects, Functions, and Types	p. 13
Objects, Functions, Types, and Pointers	p. 13
Declaring Variables	p. 14
Swapping Values (First Attempt)	p. 15
Swapping Values (Second Attempt)	p. 16
Scope	p. 18
Storage Duration	p. 19
Alignment	p. 20
Object Types	p. 21
Boolean Types	p. 21
Character Types	p. 22
Numerical types	p. 22
Void Types	p. 24
Function Types	p. 24
Derived Types	p. 25
Pointer Types	p. 25
Arrays	p. 26
Structures	p. 28
Unions	p. 29
Tags	p. 30
Type Qualifiers	p. 32
Const	p. 32
Volatile	p. 33
Restrict	p. 33
Exercises	p. 34
Summary	p. 34
Arithmetic Types	p. 35
Integers	p. 36
Padding and Precision	p. 36
The Header File	p. 36
Declaring Integers	p. 37
Unsigned Integers	p. 37
Signed Integers	p. 40
Integer Constants	p. 44
Floating-Point	p. 45
Floating-Point Types	p. 46
Floating-Point Arithmetic	p. 47
Floating-Point Values	p. 47
Floating-Point Constants	p. 49
Arithmetic Conversion	p. 49
Integer Conversion Rank	p. 50
Integer Promotions	p. 51
Usual Arithmetic Conversions	p. 52
An Example of Implicit Conversion	p. 53
Safe Conversions	p. 54
Summary	p. 55
Expressions and Operators	p. 57
Simple Assignment	p. 58
Evaluations	p. 59
Function Invocation	p. 60
Increment and Decrement Operators	p. 61
Operator Precedence and Associativity	p. 62
Order of Evaluation	p. 64
Unsequenced and Indeterminately Sequenced Evaluations	p. 65
Sequence Points	p. 66
Sizeof Operator	p. 66
Arithmetic Operators	p. 67
Unary + and - Operators	p. 67
Logical Negation Operator	p. 68
Multiplicative Operators	p. 68
Additive Operators	p. 69
Bitwise Operators	p. 69
Complement Operator	p. 70
Shift Operators	p. 70
Bitwise AND Operator	p. 72
Bitwise Exclusive OR Operator	p. 72
Bitwise Inclusive OR Operator	p. 73
Logical Operators	p. 73
Cast Operators	p. 75
Conditional Operator	p. 76
_Alignof Operator	p. 76
Relational Operators	p. 77
Compound Assignment Operators	p. 78
Comma Operator	p. 78
Pointer Arithmetic	p. 79
Summary	p. 80
Control Flow	p. 81
Expression Statements	p. 81
Compound Statements	p. 82
Selection Statements	p. 83
The if Statement	p. 83
The switch Statement	p. 86
Iteration Statements	p. 89
The while Statement	p. 89
The do…while Statement	p. 90
The for Statement	p. 91
Jump Statements	p. 93
The goto Statement	p. 93
The continue Statement	p. 94
The break Statement	p. 95
The return Statement	p. 96
Exercises	p. 97
Summary	p. 97
Dynamically Allocated Memory	p. 99
Storage Duration	p. 100
The Heap and Memory Managers	p. 100
When to Use Dynamically Allocated Memory	p. 101
Memory Management Functions	p. 101
The malloc Function	p. 102
The aligned_alloc Function	p. 104
The calloc Function	p. 105
The realloc Function	p. 105
The reallocarray Function	p. 107
The free Function	p. 108
Memory States	p. 109
Flexible Array Members	p. 110
Other Dynamically Allocated Storage	p. 111
The alloca Function	p. 111
Variable-Length Arrays	p. 112
Debugging Allocated Storage Problems	p. 115
Dmalloc	p. 116
Safety-Critical Systems	p. 118
Exercises	p. 118
Summary	p. 118
Characters and Strings	p. 119
Characters	p. 120
ASCII	p. 120
Unicode	p. 120
Source and Execution Character Sets	p. 122
Data Types	p. 122
Character Constants	p. 124
Escape Sequences	p. 125
Linux	p. 126
Windows	p. 126
Character Conversion	p. 128
Strings	p. 131
String Literals	p. 132
String-Handling Functions	p. 134
and	p. 135
Annex K Bounds-Checking Interfaces	p. 141
POSIX	p. 144
Microsoft	p. 145
Summary	p. 145
Input/Output	p. 147
Standard I/O Streams	p. 148
Stream Buffering	p. 148
Predefined Streams	p. 149
Stream Orientation	p. 150
Text and Binary Streams	p. 150
Opening and Creating Files	p. 151
The fopen Function	p. 151
The POSIX open Function	p. 153
Closing Files	p. 154
The fclose Function	p. 154
The POSIX close Function	p. 155
Reading and Writing Characters and Lines	p. 155
Stream Flushing	p. 157
Setting the Position in a File	p. 158
Removing and Renaming Files	p. 161
Using Temporary Files	p. 161
Reading Formatted Text Streams	p. 162
Reading to and Writing from Binary Streams	p. 165
Summary	p. 168
Preprocessor	p. 169
The Compilation Process	p. 170
File Inclusion	p. 171
Quoted and Angle Bracket Include Strings	p. 172
Conditional Inclusion	p. 172
Generating Errors	p. 173
Using Header Guards	p. 174
Macro Definitions	p. 175
Macro Replacement	p. 178
Type-Generic Macros	p. 180
Predefined Macros	p. 181
Summary	p. 183
Program Structure	p. 185
Principles of Componentization	p. 186
Coupling and Cohesion	p. 186
Code Reuse	p. 187
Data Abstractions	p. 187
Opaque Types	p. 188
Executables	p. 189
Linkage	p. 191
Structuring a Simple Program	p. 192
Building the Code	p. 196
Summary	p. 198
Debugging, Testing, and Analysis	p. 199
Assertions	p. 199
Static Assertions	p. 200
Runtime Assertions	p. 202
Compiler Settings and Flags	p. 203
GCC and Clang	p. 204
Visual C++	p. 206
Debugging	p. 208
Unit Testing	p. 211
Static Analysis	p. 214
Dynamic Analysis	p. 216
AddressSanitizer	p. 217
Exercises	p. 221
Summary	p. 221
References	p. 223
Index	p. 227
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FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

PublisherNo Starch Press, Incorporated

Publication DateAug. 4th, 2020

ISBN-139781718501041

Dimensions7.01 x 9.17 x 0.71 inches

ISBN-101718501048

Shipping Weight1.19 lbs

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Foreword	p. xvii
Foreword	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Introduction	p. xxiii
A Brief History of C	p. xxiv
The C Standard	p. xxv
The CERT C Coding Standard	p. xxvi
Who This Book Is For	p. xxvi
What's in This Book	p. xxvi
Getting Started With C	p. 1
Developing Your First C Program	p. 1
Compiling and Running Your Program	p. 2
Preprocessor Directives	p. 3
The main Function	p. 3
Checking Function Return Values	p. 5
Formatted Output	p. 5
Editors and Integrated Development Environments	p. 6
Compilers	p. 8
GNU Compiler Collection	p. 8
Clang	p. 8
Microsoft Visual Studio	p. 9
Portability	p. 9
Implementation-Defined Behavior	p. 10
Unspecified Behavior	p. 10
Undefined Behavior	p. 10
Locale-Specific Behavior and Common Extensions	p. 11
Summary	p. 11
Objects, Functions, and Types	p. 13
Objects, Functions, Types, and Pointers	p. 13
Declaring Variables	p. 14
Swapping Values (First Attempt)	p. 15
Swapping Values (Second Attempt)	p. 16
Scope	p. 18
Storage Duration	p. 19
Alignment	p. 20
Object Types	p. 21
Boolean Types	p. 21
Character Types	p. 22
Numerical types	p. 22
Void Types	p. 24
Function Types	p. 24
Derived Types	p. 25
Pointer Types	p. 25
Arrays	p. 26
Structures	p. 28
Unions	p. 29
Tags	p. 30
Type Qualifiers	p. 32
Const	p. 32
Volatile	p. 33
Restrict	p. 33
Exercises	p. 34
Summary	p. 34
Arithmetic Types	p. 35
Integers	p. 36
Padding and Precision	p. 36
The Header File	p. 36
Declaring Integers	p. 37
Unsigned Integers	p. 37
Signed Integers	p. 40
Integer Constants	p. 44
Floating-Point	p. 45
Floating-Point Types	p. 46
Floating-Point Arithmetic	p. 47
Floating-Point Values	p. 47
Floating-Point Constants	p. 49
Arithmetic Conversion	p. 49
Integer Conversion Rank	p. 50
Integer Promotions	p. 51
Usual Arithmetic Conversions	p. 52
An Example of Implicit Conversion	p. 53
Safe Conversions	p. 54
Summary	p. 55
Expressions and Operators	p. 57
Simple Assignment	p. 58
Evaluations	p. 59
Function Invocation	p. 60
Increment and Decrement Operators	p. 61
Operator Precedence and Associativity	p. 62
Order of Evaluation	p. 64
Unsequenced and Indeterminately Sequenced Evaluations	p. 65
Sequence Points	p. 66
Sizeof Operator	p. 66
Arithmetic Operators	p. 67
Unary + and - Operators	p. 67
Logical Negation Operator	p. 68
Multiplicative Operators	p. 68
Additive Operators	p. 69
Bitwise Operators	p. 69
Complement Operator	p. 70
Shift Operators	p. 70
Bitwise AND Operator	p. 72
Bitwise Exclusive OR Operator	p. 72
Bitwise Inclusive OR Operator	p. 73
Logical Operators	p. 73
Cast Operators	p. 75
Conditional Operator	p. 76
_Alignof Operator	p. 76
Relational Operators	p. 77
Compound Assignment Operators	p. 78
Comma Operator	p. 78
Pointer Arithmetic	p. 79
Summary	p. 80
Control Flow	p. 81
Expression Statements	p. 81
Compound Statements	p. 82
Selection Statements	p. 83
The if Statement	p. 83
The switch Statement	p. 86
Iteration Statements	p. 89
The while Statement	p. 89
The do…while Statement	p. 90
The for Statement	p. 91
Jump Statements	p. 93
The goto Statement	p. 93
The continue Statement	p. 94
The break Statement	p. 95
The return Statement	p. 96
Exercises	p. 97
Summary	p. 97
Dynamically Allocated Memory	p. 99
Storage Duration	p. 100
The Heap and Memory Managers	p. 100
When to Use Dynamically Allocated Memory	p. 101
Memory Management Functions	p. 101
The malloc Function	p. 102
The aligned_alloc Function	p. 104
The calloc Function	p. 105
The realloc Function	p. 105
The reallocarray Function	p. 107
The free Function	p. 108
Memory States	p. 109
Flexible Array Members	p. 110
Other Dynamically Allocated Storage	p. 111
The alloca Function	p. 111
Variable-Length Arrays	p. 112
Debugging Allocated Storage Problems	p. 115
Dmalloc	p. 116
Safety-Critical Systems	p. 118
Exercises	p. 118
Summary	p. 118
Characters and Strings	p. 119
Characters	p. 120
ASCII	p. 120
Unicode	p. 120
Source and Execution Character Sets	p. 122
Data Types	p. 122
Character Constants	p. 124
Escape Sequences	p. 125
Linux	p. 126
Windows	p. 126
Character Conversion	p. 128
Strings	p. 131
String Literals	p. 132
String-Handling Functions	p. 134
and	p. 135
Annex K Bounds-Checking Interfaces	p. 141
POSIX	p. 144
Microsoft	p. 145
Summary	p. 145
Input/Output	p. 147
Standard I/O Streams	p. 148
Stream Buffering	p. 148
Predefined Streams	p. 149
Stream Orientation	p. 150
Text and Binary Streams	p. 150
Opening and Creating Files	p. 151
The fopen Function	p. 151
The POSIX open Function	p. 153
Closing Files	p. 154
The fclose Function	p. 154
The POSIX close Function	p. 155
Reading and Writing Characters and Lines	p. 155
Stream Flushing	p. 157
Setting the Position in a File	p. 158
Removing and Renaming Files	p. 161
Using Temporary Files	p. 161
Reading Formatted Text Streams	p. 162
Reading to and Writing from Binary Streams	p. 165
Summary	p. 168
Preprocessor	p. 169
The Compilation Process	p. 170
File Inclusion	p. 171
Quoted and Angle Bracket Include Strings	p. 172
Conditional Inclusion	p. 172
Generating Errors	p. 173
Using Header Guards	p. 174
Macro Definitions	p. 175
Macro Replacement	p. 178
Type-Generic Macros	p. 180
Predefined Macros	p. 181
Summary	p. 183
Program Structure	p. 185
Principles of Componentization	p. 186
Coupling and Cohesion	p. 186
Code Reuse	p. 187
Data Abstractions	p. 187
Opaque Types	p. 188
Executables	p. 189
Linkage	p. 191
Structuring a Simple Program	p. 192
Building the Code	p. 196
Summary	p. 198
Debugging, Testing, and Analysis	p. 199
Assertions	p. 199
Static Assertions	p. 200
Runtime Assertions	p. 202
Compiler Settings and Flags	p. 203
GCC and Clang	p. 204
Visual C++	p. 206
Debugging	p. 208
Unit Testing	p. 211
Static Analysis	p. 214
Dynamic Analysis	p. 216
AddressSanitizer	p. 217
Exercises	p. 221
Summary	p. 221
References	p. 223
Index	p. 227
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