Programming in C

502 Appendix E Resources

Web Sites

http://www.kochan-wood.com

At this Web site, you’ll find a new online edition of the book Topics in C Programming,

which I wrote with Patrick Wood as a follow-up to my original Programming in Cbook.

http://www.ansi.org

This is the ANSI Web site.You can purchase the official ANSI C specification here.

Type 9899:1999 into the search window to locate the ANSI C99 specifications.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/idx/index.html

This is a great online reference source for library functions (there are also non-ANSI

C functions here).

Newsgroups

comp.lang.c

This is a newsgroup devoted to the C programming language.You can ask questions

here and help other people out as well—after you gain more experience. It’s also useful

just to observe the discussions. A good way to get access to this newsgroup is through

http://groups.google.com.

C Compilers and Integrated Development

Environments

Following is a list of Web sites where you can download and/or purchase C compilers

and development environments, as well as obtain online documentation.

gcc

http://gcc.gnu.org/

The C compiler developed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is called gcc. It’s

also used by Apple on their Mac OS X systems.You can download a C compiler for no

charge from this Web site.

MinGW

http://www.mingw.org

If you want to get started writing C programs in a Windows environment, you can

get a GNU gcccompiler from this Web site. Also consider downloading MSYS as an

easy-to-use shell environment in which to work.

CygWin

http://www.cygwin.com

CygWin provides a Linux-like environment that runs under Windows.This develop-

ment environment is available at no charge.

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