Digital Design and Computer Architecture, ARM Edition

eC

C Programming

C.1 Introduction

C.2 Welcome to C

C.3 Compilation

C.4 Variables

C.5 Operators

C.6 Function Calls

C.7 Control-Flow Statements

C.8 More Data Types

C.9 Standard Libraries

C.10 Compiler and Command Line Options

C.11 Common Mistakes

C.1 Introduction

The overall goal of this book is to give a picture of how computers work on many levels, from the transistors by which they are constructed all the way up to the software they run. The first five chapters of this book work up through the lower levels of abstraction, from transistors to gates to logic design. Chapters 6 through 8 jump up to architecture and work back down to microarchitecture to connect the hardware with the software. This Appendix on C programming fits logically between ...