Errata

In the second example code page 341, printed version We found:

char file_name[256}

Where it should be the code:

char file_name[256] , closing the square bracket.

Note from the Author or Editor:
The reader is right: the brackets need to match of course. Change this:

char file_name[256};

to this:

char file_name[256];

The maximum value listed for a four byte unsigned int is shown as: 2,147,483,647.
That would be correct for a four byte signed int, but for a four byte unsigned int
the value should be: 4,294,967,295.

Add missing right parenthesis before the dot:
(*(arrArticle+i)).number

With gcc-4.0.0 (Mac OS X, PowerPC), the expression "sizeof(*int)" gives rise to a parse error ("parse error before 'int'"). Using "sizeof(int*) instead works fine.

Note from the Author or Editor:
In the second line of examples at the top of page 78, change the first expression from "sizeof(*int)" to "sizeof(int*)".

The last occurrence of 'p2' should be preceded by an asterisk.

Change "a function pointer" to "an argument pointer"

Omit "(see "Implicit Pointer Conversion" in Chapter 4)"
and at the end of the paragraph (page 128, top), add:
"(see "Comparative Operators" in Chapter 5)" ^

Change "a constant pointer does not necessarily point to a constant object:"
to "a constant pointer is not the same thing as a pointer to a constant object:"

Change "int a[200];" to "char a[200];"

Change
struct Date { short year, month, day; };
to
struct Date { short month, day, year; };
[[to match subsequent initialization on p. 144]].

Please change the third bullet point as follows

* Nodes in a binary tree are placed according to this rule: the value of a
node is greater than or equal to the values of any descendant in its left
branch, and less than or equal to the value of any descendant in its right branch.

If possible, insert two "include" directives before the searchFile
function begins, as follows:

// -------------------------------------------------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int searchFile( FILE fpIn, const char *keyword )

Change "ARRAY_LEN" to "ARRAY_LEN * sizeof(Record_t)"
and move the comment up a line, thus:

else //Create the buffer.
if ((pArray = malloc( ARRAY_LEN * sizeof(Record_t) )) == NULL )
error_exit( 3, "Insufficient memory.");

Change
if ( i > 0 ) // Write the remaining records.
to
if ( i > 0 && !ferror(fpOut) ) // Write the remaining records.

Change "message.txt" to "messages.txt"

There are four more functions that actually belong in Table 16-18. They are
declared in inttypes.h, so that the table should have another column on the right.
Furthermore, the paragraph introducing the table needs a couple more sentences to
introduce these functions.

These changes may be too extensive for the English version, but they have been
made in preparing the German version. Here is how the table and its introduction
should look, following on the existing sentence "The functions for char strings
are declared in the header stdlib.h, and those for wide strings in wchar.h.":


Four new functions introduced in C99, declared in inttypes.h, convert
a string into the widest available signed or unsigend integer type,
intmax_t or uintmax_t.

Table 16-18: Conversion of numeral strings
Conversion Functions in stdlib.h Functions in wchar.h Functions in inttypes.h
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
String to int atoi()
String to long atol(), strtol() wcstol()
String to unsigned long strtoul() wcstoul()
String to long long atoll(), strtoll() wcstoll()
String to unsigned long long strtoull() wcstoull()
String to intmax_t strtoimax()
wcstoimax
String to uintmax_t strtoumax()
wcstoumax
String to float strtof() wcstof()
String to double atof(), strtod() wcstod()
String to long double strtold() wcstold()

Change "cosine" to "sine", thus:
Calculates the inverse hyperbolic sine of a number

Change "sma_km" to "dist_km", thus:
printf("Then your planet must be about %.0lf km from the Sun.
", dist_km );

Insert a section for the function clog() before section "conj" (if possible).
Contents as follows (keeping it short):

clog C99
___________________________________________________________________
Calculates the natural logarithm of a complex number

#include <complex.h>
double complex clog( double complex z );
float complex clogf( float complex z );
long double complex clogl( long double complex z );

The clog() function returns the logarithm to base e of its
complex argument. The imaginary part of the return value is
in the interval [-pii, +pii]

Example
double complex z = clog( -1.0 ); // z = 0.0 + 3.1415926 * I

See Also:
cexp(), cpow()

Change "%flags X.
" to "flags %X.
"

First paragraph, third sentence:
Change
"If the file is only opened for reading, the function clears the buffer."
to
"If the file is only opened for reading, the behavior of fflush() is
not specified by the standard. Most implementations simply clear
the input buffer."

Insert a sentence at the beginning of the second paragraph:
"The argument passed to fflush() may be a null pointer. In this case,
fflush() flushes the output buffers of all the program's open streams.

Change "char pointer" to "wchar_t pointer"

Change
"of the input string,tony:x:1002:1002:, and copies"
to
"of the input string,tony:x:1002:31:, and copies"

(Code change because fgets() returns NULL at end-of-file):

Change

21 if ( ! fgets(sLine,MAX_LINE,fp )) // Read next line from file.
22 {
23 fprintf(stderr,"Unable to read from %s
",argv [2 ] ));
24 break;
25 }
26 } while ( strstr( sLine, argv[1] ) == NULL ); // Test for argument in sLine.
27
28 /* Dropped out of loop: Found search keyword or EOF */
29 if ( feof(fp) )
30 {
31 fprintf( stderr,"Unable to find "%s" in %s
", argv[1], argv[2] );
32 rewind(fp);
33 }

to

if ( ! fgets(sLine,MAX_LINE,fp )) // Read next line from file.
{
break;
}
} while ( strstr( sLine, argv[1] ) == NULL ); // Test for argument in sLine.

/* Dropped out of loop: Found search keyword or EOF */
if ( feof(fp) || ferror(fp) )
{
fprintf( stderr,"Unable to find "%s" in %s
", argv[1], argv[2] );
rewind(fp);
}

In other words, delete line 23 of the example completely,
and and insert "|| ferror(fp) " in line 29.

Delete the line:
char *ptr = buffer;
[[because ptr is not used in the example]]

Change "file" to "stream" and "stdin" (as at getchar), thus:
"A return value of WEOF indicates an error or an attempt to read past the end of the
input stream. In these cases the function sets the error or end-of-file flag for
stdin as appropriate."

Change "as a" to "in", move "usually", and add a comma, thus:
"The type time_t is defined in time.h, usually as equivalent to long or unsigned long."

Delete one and a half sentences, which span a paragraph break:
"The results depend on the current locale setting for the localization
category LC_CTYPE, which you can query or change using the setlocale()
function. In the default locale C, "

The resulting single text paragraph should read:

The function isdigit( ) tests whether its character argument is a digit.
isdigit() returns a nonzero value (that is, true) for the ten characters
between '0' (not to be confused with the null character, '&#65533;') and '9'
inclusive. Otherwise, the function returns 0 (false).

Delete the first two lines of the paragraph and capitalize the "The" that follows.

The resulting second paragraph should read:

The digit wide characters are L'0' (not to be confused with the null character
L'&#65533;') through L'9'. The iswdigit() function returns a nonzero value (that
is, true) if the wide character represents a digit; if not, it returns 0
(false).

At the end of the "See Also" list for isxdigit, delete the following repeated phrase:
"; the extensible wide-character classification function, iswctype()"

I.e., the "See Also" list should end after "setlocale()".

Delete the "(C99)" tag to the right of these two function prototypes:
float log2f( float x );
long double log2l( long double x );

Change lines 8, 12, and 17 of the example code.
Change from this:

8 while ( NULL != fgets( buffer, fp_in ) )
9 {
10 if ( head == NULL ) /* Chain not yet started; add first link */
11 {
12 head = malloc( sizeof(struct linelink));
13 if ( head != NULL )
14 {
15 head->line = malloc( strlen( buffer ) + 1 );
16 if ( head->line != NULL )
17 strcpy( head->line, buffer );

... to this:

while ( NULL != fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), fp_in ))
{
if ( head == NULL ) /* Chain not yet started; add first link */
{
head = tail = malloc( sizeof(struct linelink));
if ( head != NULL )
{
head->line = malloc ( strlen( buffer ) + 1 );
if ( head->line != NULL )
{ strcpy( head->line, buffer); head->next = NULL; }

Add the following sentence at the end of the paragraph:

"If no valid multibyte character is found within the maximum length specified
by the maxsize argument, mbrtowc() returns -2."

[[maxsize in monospaced italics; mbrtowc in monospaced font.]]

syntax statement: Change the first descriptive sentence to include '#'
in the possible flag characters, thus:

"The flags consist of one or more of the characters +, ' '(space), -, 0, or #."

Change "256" to "512" in the example code and in the output, thus:

printf("512 times pi cubed equals %.2e, or %.2a.
", bignumber, bignumber);

This printf() call produces the following output:

512 times pi cubed equals 1.59e+04, or 0x1.f0p+13.

- Same location, first line of text after the example's output edited above:
Delete "of [Greek letter pi] ", thus:
"The first representation shown here, produced by" etc.

The second and third items in the bullet list need to be amended as follows:
. A matching failure: a non-whitespace character in the input failed to match the conversion specification or the character in the corresponding position in the format string.
. An input failure: no further characters could be read from the input, or an encoding error occurred.

Change to:
_IOLBF
Line buffered: On read and write operations, characters are placed in the buffer until one of them is a newline character, or until
the buffer is full. Then the contents of the buffer are written to the stream. The buffer is also written to the stream whenever the
program requests, from an unbuffered stream or a line-buffered stream, input which requires characters to be read from the execution
environment.

Change "char c;" to "int c = 0;" (because tolower() returns int), thus:

void sigint_handler(int sig )
{
int c = 0;


- In the same example, five lines farther down:
Change three code lines from this:

while (( c = tolower( getchar( ) )) != 'y' && c != 'n' )
;

if ( c == 'y' )

to this:

while (( c = tolower( getchar( ) )) != 'y' && c != 'n' && c != EOF )
;

if ( c != 'n' )

Change first item, "strtoumax()", to "strtoimax()".

Change lines 15, 17 and 18 of the code as follows:

Line 15: change "originals[i]" to "stringpairs[i].original"
Line 17: change "->" to "."
Line 18: delete the final semicolon.

In other words, change the for-loop from this:

12 for ( int i = 0; i < 8 ; i++ )
13 {
14 stringpairs[i].xformed
15 = malloc( strxfrm( xformbuffer, originals[i], 1024 ) +1 );
16 if ( stringpairs[i].xformed != NULL )
17 strcpy( stringpairs[i]->xformed, xformbuffer );
18 };

to this:

for ( int i = 0; i < 8 ; ++i)
{
stringpairs[i].xformed
= malloc( strxfrm ( xformbuffer, stringpairs[i].original, 1024 ) + 1 );
if ( stringpairs [i].xformed != NULL )
strcpy(stringpairs[i].xformed, xformbuffer);
}

Break up the line:

static wchar_t buffer[16], sign[2] = L"";

into two lines as follows (because sign should not be static):

static wchar_t buffer[16];
wchar_t sign[2] = L"";

Change:
"The tolower() function returns"
to:
"The toupper() function returns"

In the function prototype, change "s1" to "dest" and change "s2" to "src".
In the first line of the descriptive text below that, change "char" to "wchar_t".

In the first line of the descriptive text (third to last line of the page),
change "The memset() function" to "The wmemset() function".

The example:

$gcc -lm -Wl,-M circle.c circulararea.c > circle.map

does not redirect the map file to circle.map because the map output is written to
stderr, not stdout.

TO FIX:

Change the command line example to:

$gcc -lm -Wl,-Map,circle.map circle.c circulararea.c

In this case the explanatory paragraph following the command line
example should read:

The option -Wl,-Map,circle.map on the GCC command line passes
the option -Map,circle.map to the linker command line,
instructing the linker to print a link script and a memory map of
the linked executable to the specified file, circle.map.

clean:
$(RM) $(OBJ) *.sym circle dcircle

should read:

clean:
$(RM) $(OBJ) *.sym circle circle-dbg

Change this:
"such recursions still run parallel to the present instance, unless their makefiles also contain"
to this:
"the new instance of make still executes commands in parallel, unless its makefile also contains"
[[My error was based on an error in the GNU Make manual. I filed a bug report,
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17701]]

In the third to last line of the example, change "21" to "27", and
In the last line of the example, change "14" to "16".
The resulting three lines:

1 breakpoint keep y 0x004010e7 in swap at gdb_example.c:27
ignore next 5 hits
3 breakpoint del n 0x004010c0 in main at gdb_example.c:16