Expert C Programming

One Purpose of Dynamic Linking Is the ABI A major purpose of dynamic linking is to decouple programs from the particular library ...

Finally (much less common, but still possible), dynamic linking allows users to select at runtime which library to execute again ...

applications have to be regenerated for every new release of the operating system to ensure that they keep running. Furthermore, ...

to anywhere, simply by fixing up the offset tables. So when the code is mapped in at runtime, the runtime linker can directly pu ...

At this point, you may be wondering how the compiler knows in which directory to look for the libraries. Just as there are speci ...

the routines that a library contains. More about this in the next heuristic! Handy Heuristic How to Match a Symbol with its Libr ...

Finally, there's an additional and big difference in link semantics between dynamic linking and static linking that often confus ...

version and do the wrong thing. At one point, Sun's compiler group amended the compiler drivers so that they coped with the situ ...

particular program, usually for debugging or performance reasons. But like a gun with no safety catch, while it lets experts get ...

Most programmers have not memorized all the names in the C library, and common names like index or mktemp tend to be chosen surp ...

"out of memory" and refused to print. The fault appeared randomly, and it was very hard to track down. Finally, it was traced to ...

bsearch BUFSIZ calloc ceil,-f,-l CHAR_BIT CHAR_MAX CHAR_MIN clearerr clock clock_t CLOCKS_PER_SEC cos,-f,-l cosh,-f,-l ctime cur ...

setlocale setvbuf SHRT_MAX SHRT_MIN SIG_[A-Z]anything sig_atomic_t SIG_DFL SIG_ERR SIG_IGN (^) SIG[A-Z]anything SIGABRT SIGFPE S ...

been put where in the executable. It also shows multiple instances of the same symbol, and by looking at what files these occur ...

Over the decades since Turing proposed this trial, the Turing test has taken place several times, sometimes with astonishing res ...

vp: Is there any reason why I can't use the computer now? teletype: Tell me more about your prospective customers. vp: Please ca ...

else? 1: Are you sure the real reason the real reason explain anything else explain anything else? 2: Earlier you said do I do w ...

It comes as no surprise that the terminal above is actually a computer program. It's operating just as Eliza was; it analyzes th ...

Although a brilliant theoretician, Turing was often hopeless when it came to practical matters. His impracticality showed itself ...

47: The captain violates the Prime Directive, then either endangers the Enterprise or has an affair with an attractive alien, or ...