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Article #1643Re: Ansi C reference guide
From: Mark Alexander
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 1990 18:29
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 1990 18:29
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In article <13697@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes: >In article <12836@netcom.UUCP> jim@netcom.UUCP (Jim Nelson) writes: >>Does anyone know of good books, jounals or other publications >>that describe the Ansi C standard in detail? > >The best one I have seen is "Standard C" by P.J. Plauger and Jim Brodie >(1989, Microsoft Press, ISBN 1-55615-158-6)... I second that. So far I've found only two mistakes in the book: * The last paragraph of the setlocale() description has the arguments scrambled in the code fragment. (p. 132) * The gets() description says that the NL character is stored, when in fact it is read and DISCARDED. (p. 151) Occasionally the book is a bit terse, so it's nice to have the actual ANSI C standard around as a backup. -- Mark Alexander (uunet!drivax!alexande or alexande@dri.com)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!drivax!alexande From: alexande@dri.com (Mark Alexander) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Ansi C reference guide Keywords: Ansi C books Message-ID: <4BZPKKR@dri.com> Date: 5 Sep 90 18:29:57 GMT References: <12836@netcom.UUCP> <13697@smoke.BRL.MIL> Organization: none Lines: 19