References for C (programming language)

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Overview

ALGOL
Array data type
Assignment (computer science)
Bitwise operation
Blocks of statements
Boehm garbage collector
C preprocessor
C string handling
Computer memory
Conditional (computer programming)
Conditional compilation
Control flow
Curly braces
Dennis Ritchie
Do while loop
Dynamic allocation
Enumerated type
Executable code
For loop
Free-form language
Functional programming
Garbage collection (computer science)
GObject
Imperative programming
Implicit conversion
Input/output
Ken Thompson
Lexical variable scope
Library (computing)
Linker (computing)
Macro (computer science)
Modular programming
Null-terminated string
Object-oriented programming
Parameter (computer programming)
Pointer (computer programming)
Procedure (computer science)
Recursion (computer science)
Run-time polymorphism
Semicolon
Sigil (computer programming)
Source code
Statement (programming)
Static (keyword)
Static typing
String (computer science)
Strong and weak typing
Struct (C programming language)
Subroutine
Switch statement
Type system
Typedef
Union type
While loop

Syntax

?:
Assignment (computer science)
Comma operator
Formal grammar
Goto
Label (computer science)
Procedure call
Sequence point
Side effect (computer science)
Statement (computer science)
String literal
Structured programming
Switch statement

Character set

Backspace
Bell character
C11 (C standard revision)
Carriage return
Newline
Page break
Run time (program lifecycle phase)
Software portability
Space (punctuation)
Tab character
Whitespace character

Reserved words

Break statement
Case sensitivity
Complex data type
Conditional (computer programming)
Const (computer programming)
Continue (keyword)
Double precision
Enumerated type
External variable
Floating-point arithmetic
For loop
Goto
Inline function
Integer (computer science)
Long integer
Register (C programming language)
Restrict
Short integer
Signed number representations
Sizeof
Static (keyword)
Struct (C programming language)
Switch statement
The C Programming Language
Typedef
Void type
Volatile variable
While loop

Operators

?:
Addition
ALGOL
Arithmetic
Assignment (computer science)
Augmented assignment
Bit shift
Bitwise operation
Boolean logic
Comma operator
Division (mathematics)
Equality (mathematics)
Expression (computer science)
Fortran
Increment and decrement operators
Inequality (mathematics)
Modulo operation
Multiplication
Operator (computer programming)
Order of operations
Order theory
PL/I
Pointer (computer programming)
Record (computer science)
Sizeof
Subroutine
Subtraction
Type conversion
Typeof

"Hello, world" example

"Hello, World!" program
Array data type
Brian Kernighan
Escape sequences in C
Library (computing)
Main function (programming)
Newline
Null character
Preprocessor
Printf
Standard output
Stdio.h
String literal
The C Programming Language

Data types

ALGOL
Array data type
Boolean data type
Declaration reflects use
Floating-point number
Function pointer
Pascal (programming language)
Pointer (computer programming)
Record (computer science)
Static typing
Strong and weak typing
Struct (C programming language)
Type conversion
Type system
Union (computer science)

Pointers

Bsearch
Callback (computer science)
Dangling pointer
Dispatch table
Dynamic memory allocation
Event (computing)
Function pointer
Higher-order function
Linked list
Null pointer
Pointer (computer programming)
Pointer arithmetic
Qsort
Reference (computer science)
Segmentation fault
String (computer science)
Tree (data structure)
Type conversion
Wild pointer

Arrays

Array data type
Bounds checking
Buffer overflow
Linear algebra
Multi-dimensional array
Recursion (computer science)
Row-major order
Variable length array

Array–pointer interchangeability

Call-by-value
Reference (computer science)
Sizeof
Syntactic sugar

Memory management

Automatic memory allocation
Bit
Call stack
Computer memory
Computer storage
Dynamic memory allocation
Garbage collection (computer science)
Linker (computing)
Loader (computing)
Malloc
Memory leak
Static memory allocation
Type I and type II errors
Variable (programming)

Libraries

ANSI C
C standard library
Compiler flag
Embedded systems
Header file
ISO standard
Java (programming language)
Kernel (operating system)
Library (computing)
Object code
Perl
POSIX
Python (programming language)
Single UNIX Specification
Unix
Unix-like

File handling and streams

Data buffer
Embedded programming
Hard drive
Operating system
Solid-state drive
Stream (computing)

Language tools

Bounds checking
Buffer overflow
Garbage collection (computer science)
IBM Rational Purify
Lint (software)
Malloc
Memory management
MISRA C
Serialization
Valgrind

Rationale for use in systems programming

Assembly language
C dynamic memory allocation
Calling conventions
Control/Status Register
Direct memory access
Embedded system
Interrupt handler
Intrinsic function
Kernel (operating system)
Memory-mapped I/O
Operating system
Region-based memory management
Run time (program lifecycle phase)
Runtime system
Stop-the-world
Systems programming
Type punning
Virtual memory

Used for computationally-intensive libraries

GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library
GNU Scientific Library
Mathematica
MATLAB
NumPy
Python (programming language)

C as an intermediate language

C--
GNU Compiler Collection
Intermediate language
Intermediate representation
List of C-family programming languages
LLVM

Other languages written in C

Compiler
Interpreter (computing)
Perl
PHP
Python (programming language)
Reference implementation
Ruby (programming language)

Once used for web development

Common Gateway Interface
Interpreted language
Web development
Web development tools

Web servers

Apache HTTP Server
Nginx
PHP
Web servers

End-user applications

End-user (computer science)

Limitations

Application binary interface
C preprocessor
C standard library
C string handling
Calling conventions
CERT Coding Standards
Common Weakness Enumeration
Data structure alignment
Exception handling
International Obfuscated C Code Contest
MISRA C
Race condition
Return code
Setjmp.h
Software maintenance
Stack overflow
Strong and weak typing
Type checking
Type introspection
Underhanded C Contest
Variadic function
Bjarne Stroustrup
C syntax
C++
Ch (computer programming)
Cilk
CINT
Class (programming)
Compatibility of C and C++
Generic programming
Java (programming language)
Object-oriented programming
Objective-C
Smalltalk
Source-to-source compiler
Superset
TIOBE index
Unified Parallel C

Sources

Association for Computing Machinery
Brian Kernighan
Dennis Ritchie
Doi (identifier)
ISBN (identifier)
Prentice Hall

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