C Traps and Pitfalls
by Andrew Koenig
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Even C experts come across problems that require days of debugging to fix. This book helps to prevent such problems by showing how C programmers get themselves into trouble. Each of the book's many examples has trapped a professional programmer. In addition to its examples, C Traps and Pitfalls offers advice on: avoiding off-by-one errors understanding and constructing function declarations understanding the subtle relationship between pointers and arrays Distilled from the author's show more experience over a decade of programming in C, this book is an ideal resource for anyone,novice or expert, who has ever written a C program. show lessTags
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A member of the Software Technology Center at ATandT Bell Laboratories, Andrew Koenig has been a programmer for 20 years. While learning C, he ported the well-known adventure program from PL/I to the delight (and frustration) of computer users everywhere. More recently, he developed a toolkit for automatic software distribution, which allows a show more system administrator to crash dozens of machines with a single command. show less
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- Technology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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- 005.26 — Computer science, information & general works Computer science, knowledge & systems Artificial Intelligence/Virtual Reality Programming for Specific Environments Personal Computers
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- QA76.73 .C15 .K66 — Science Mathematics Mathematics Instruments and machines Calculating machines Electronic computers. Computer science
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