Expert C Programming

Others who worked on the project include Steve Berman, Eddie Caplan, Mark Wilkins, and Mark Zaremsky [2]. The Coke machine progr ...

9 10 struct token { 11 char type; 12 char string[MAXTOKENLEN]; 13 }; 14 15 int top=-1; 16 struct token stack[MAXTOKENS]; 17 stru ...

57 *p = '\0'; 58 this.type=classify_string(); 59 return; 60 } 61 62 if (p=='') { 63 strcpy(this.string,"pointer to"); 64 this.ty ...

105 printf("%s ", pop.string ); 106 } 107 } 108 109 deal_with_declarator() { 110 /* deal with possible array/function following ...

zero if the strings are identical. This leads to convoluted code when the comparison is part of a conditional statement: if (!st ...

char * ; step 5 say "pointer to..." char ; step 6 say "char;" Then put it all together to read: "c is an array[0..9] of pointer ...

file 1: int mango[100]; file 2: extern int *mango; ... / some code that references mango[i] / Here, file 1 defines mango as an a ...

elsewhere (e.g., in another file) example: extern int my_array[]; Handy Heuristic Distinguishing a Definition from a Declaration ...

The symbol appearing on the left of an assignment is sometimes called an l-value (for "left-hand-side" or "locator" value), whil ...

In contrast, if you declare extern char *p, it tells the compiler that p is a pointer (a four-byte object on many contemporary m ...

Get the address that p represents, and retrieve the pointer there. Add the offset that the subscript represents onto the pointe ...

Other Differences Between Arrays and Pointers Another way of looking at the differences between arrays and pointers is to compar ...

strncpy(a, "black", 5); gives the string in the array the new value "blackberry". Chapter 9 discusses when pointers and arrays a ...

say, a jaw, a lay, a wet, a gallop, a tug, a trot, a trap, a tram, a torr, a caper, a top, a tonk, a toll, a ball, a fair, a sax ...

A "catalpa" (in case you're wondering) is a native American word for a type of tree. You can look up axon and calamus for yourse ...

Write a Palindrome Claim your 15 minutes of fame: write a C program to generate that 10,000-word palindrome. Really make yoursel ...

to invoke all these pieces and pass the right options to each (see Figure 5-1). An optimizer can be added after almost any of th ...

They are written in pieces because they are easier to design and maintain if each specialized part is a program in its own right ...

have little in common with the rest of C. The C preprocessor is often (but not always) a separate program. If the code generator ...

Even with static linking, the whole of libc. a is not brought into the executable, just the routines needed. The Benefits of Dyn ...