The C programming Langguage 2nd Edition

... as'x'. The value of a character constant is the numeric value of the character in the machine'scharacter set. For example, in the ASCII character set the character constant '0' has the ... are the same. But there are situations where one or the other is specificallycalled for. For instance, consider the function squeeze(s ,c) , which removes all...

... process concerns of concurrent programming. This is the only book you’ll need in order to learn the best practices and common patterns for programming with concurrency on Windows and .NET. Concurrent ... that contexts arise in a few other places too. For example, when an exception occurs, the OS takes a snapshot of the current context so that exception handling code can inspect...

... data, and a con- structor. Assuming that the source code of the example is stored in the file acme.cs, the command line csc /t:library acme.cs compiles the example as a library (code without ... value type, a check is made that the referenced object is a box of the correct value type, and, if the check succeeds, the value in the box is copied out. C# ’s unified type sys...

... solved’’ so that the concepts of a solution can be expressed directly and concisely. The facilities added to C to create C ++ were primarily designed with this in mind. The connection between the language ... book concentrates on the language features, the basic tech- niques from which every program is composed, and the rules for composition. The selection of examples refl...

... c = getchar() ;the variable c contains the next character of input. The characters normally come from the keyboard; input from files is discussed in Chapter 7. The function putchar prints a character ... decimal. A character constant is an integer, written as one character within single quotes, such as 'x'. The value of a character constant is the numeric value o...