Beej's Guide to C Programming

Brian "Beej" Hall
beej@beej.us

Revision alpha-25
May 17, 2007

Copyright © 2007 Brian "Beej" Hall


Contents


1. Foreward
1.1. Audience
1.2. Platform and Compiler
1.3. Building under Unix
1.4. Official Homepage
1.5. Email Policy
1.6. Mirroring
1.7. Note for Translators
1.8. Copyright and Distribution

2. Programming Building Blocks
2.1. The Specification
2.2. The Implementation
2.3. So Much To Do, So Little Time
2.4. Hello, World!

3. Variables, Expressions, and Statements (Oh My)
3.1. Variables
3.2. Operators
3.3. Expressions
3.4. Statements

4. Building Blocks Revisited

5. Functions
5.1. Passing by Value
5.2. Function Prototypes

6. Variables, The Sequel
6.1. "Up Scope"
6.2. Storage Classes

7. Pointers--Cower In Fear!
7.1. Memory and Variables
7.2. Pointer Types
7.3. Dereferencing
7.4. Passing Pointers as Parameters

8. Structures
8.1. Pointers to structs
8.2. Passing struct pointers to functions

9. Arrays
9.1. Passing arrays to functions

10. Strings

11. Dynamic Memory
11.1. malloc()
11.2. free()
11.3. realloc()
11.4. calloc()

12. More Stuff!
12.1. Pointer Arithmetic
12.2. typedef
12.3. enum
12.4. More struct declarations
12.5. Command Line Arguments
12.6. Multidimensional Arrays
12.7. Casting and promotion
12.8. Incomplete types
12.9. void pointers
12.10. NULL pointers
12.11. More Static
12.12. Typical Multifile Projects
12.13. The Almighty C Preprocessor
12.14. Pointers to pointers
12.15. Pointers to Functions
12.16. Variable Argument Lists

13. Standard I/O Library
13.1. fopen()
13.2. freopen()
13.3. fclose()
13.4. printf(), fprintf()
13.5. scanf(), fscanf()
13.6. gets(), fgets()
13.7. getc(), fgetc(), getchar()
13.8. puts(), fputs()
13.9. putc(), fputc(), putchar()
13.10. fseek(), rewind()
13.11. ftell()
13.12. fgetpos(), fsetpos()
13.13. ungetc()
13.14. fread()
13.15. fwrite()
13.16. feof(), ferror(), clearerr()
13.17. perror()
13.18. remove()
13.19. rename()
13.20. tmpfile()
13.21. tmpnam()
13.22. setbuf(), setvbuf()
13.23. fflush()

14. String Manipulation
14.1. strlen()
14.2. strcmp(), strncmp()
14.3. strcat(), strncat()
14.4. strchr(), strrchr()
14.5. strcpy(), strncpy()
14.6. strspn(), strcspn()
14.7. strstr()
14.8. strtok()

15. Mathematics
15.1. sin(), sinf(), sinl()
15.2. cos(), cosf(), cosl()
15.3. tan(), tanf(), tanl()
15.4. asin(), asinf(), asinl()
15.5. acos(), acosf(), acosl()
15.6. atan(), atanf(), atanl(), atan2(), atan2f(), atan2l()
15.7. sqrt()

16. Complex Numbers

17. Time Library