 | The Standard C Library Plauger Format: Paperback, 498pp Pub. Date: July 1991 Publisher: Pearson Education ISBN: 0131315099 Book Availability Amazon.com $53.00 BarnesandNoble.com $69.67 Booksamillion.com $68.00 | ||
This is not for the meek and make sure you read the "Fair use" clause in the Preface. Dr. Plauger now works for the dark side. Dave R.
If you are looking for a reference to the standard library, this is it. There is a chapter for each header. Each chapter details all functions that are available and how to implement them. The book is about 500 pages, but all chapters are useful. You won't find any fluff in here. Anthony W.
This outstanding book integrates three treatments of the Standard C library: The straight text from the standard, a commentary, and a prototype implementation. All of these show Plauger at his best. microtherion
Even though the implementation does not always look elegant (and unfortunately is not open source), it provides a high quality implementation of each aspect of the standard and is extremely instructive (I found the stdio formatting code and the math routines particularly interesting).
Reference book for the C standard library which defines things like