Second Edition

Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie

CONTENTS

• 1.1 getting started
• 1.2 variables and arithmetic expressions
• 1.3 the for statement
• 1.4 symbolic constants
• 1.5 character input and output
• 1.6 arrays
• 1.7 functions
• 1.8 arguments - call by value
• 1.9 character arrays
• 1.10 external variables and scope

• 2.1 variable
• 2.2 data types and sizes
• 2.3 constants
• 2.4 declarations
• 2.5 arithmetic operators
• 2.6 ralational and logical operators
• 2.7 type conversions
• 2.8 increment and decrement
• 2.9 bitwise operators
• 2.10 assignment operators
• 2.11 conditional expressions
• 2.12 precedence and order of evaluation

• 3.1 statements and blocks
• 3.2 if-else
• 3.3 else-if
• 3.4 switch
• 3.5 loops - while and for
• 3.6 loops - do-while
• 3.7 break and continue
• 3.8 goto and labels

• 4.1 basics of functions
• 4.2 functions returning non-integers
• 4.3 external variables
• 4.4 scope rules
• 4.5 header files
• 4.6 static variables
• 4.7 register variables
• 4.8 block structures
• 4.9 initialization
• 4.10 recursion
• 4.11 the c preprocessor

• 5.1 pointers and addresses
• 5.2 pointers and function arguments
• 5.3 pointers and arrays
• 5.4 address arithmetic
• 5.5 character pointers and functions
• 5.6 pointer arrays and pointers to pointers
• 5.7 multi-dimensional arryas
• 5.8 initialization of pointer arrays
• 5.9 pointer vs multi-dimensional arrays
• 5.10 command-line arguments
• 5.11 pointers to functions
• 5.12 complicated declarations

• 6.1 basics of structures
• 6.2 structures and functions
• 6.3 arrays of structures
• 6.4 pointers to structures
• 6.5 self-referencial structures
• 6.6 table lookup
• 6.7 typedef
• 6.8 unions
• 6.9 bit-fields

• 7.1 standard input and output
• 7.2 formatted output - printf
• 7.3 variable-length argument lists
• 7.4 formatted input - scanf
• 7.5 file access
• 7.6 error handling - stderr and exit
• 7.7 line input and output
• 7.8 miscellanesous functions

• 8.1 file descriptors
• 8.2 low level I/O - read and write
• 8.3 open, creat, close and unlink
• 8.4 random access - lseek
• 8.5 example - an implementation of fopen and getc
• 8.6 example - listing directories
• 8.7 example - a storage allocator

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