In this book Mike James provides in-depth exploration of the essence of C, identifying the strengths of its distinctive traits. This reveals that C has a very special place among the programming languages of today as a powerful and versatile option for low-level programming, something that is often overlooked in books written by programmers who would really rather be using a higher-level language.

The chapters of this book focus on specific topics, diving deep into some topics that you might already know but will come to see differently, and in other chapters exploring the lesser-understood areas of the C language, which only make sense when you view C as a machine-independent assembly language.

Author: Mike James
Publisher: I/O Press
Date: June 2024
Pages: 215
ISBN: 978-1871962888
Print: ‎ 1871962889
Kindle: B0D6LZZQ8R
Audience: C programmers
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Category: C/C++

Topics include:

• Bit patterns
• Arithmetic
• How C types are different
• Casting
• Expressions
• The evil for
• What’s void
• Blocks
• Locals
• The stack
• Heap and static storage
• Pointers
• Arrays
• Multidimensional arrays as pointers
• First class functions
• Structs
• Type punning
• Unions
• Undefined behavior and exceptions

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