Modern C for Absolute Beginners: A Friendly Introduction to the C Programming Language

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S. DmitrovićModern C for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0224-9_32

32. Introduction to C Standard Library

Slobodan Dmitrović¹  

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Belgrade, Serbia

 

The C compiler is accompanied by a number of useful functions and macros called the C standard library. These functions are defined in standard-library header files. To use the C standard-library functions, we simply include the appropriate header into our program. Here are some of the C standard-library headers:

Available in all C standards:
<assert.h>	Assertion macros
<ctype.h>	Utils for individual characters
<errno.h>	Macros reporting error conditions
<float.h>	Floating-type limits
<limits.h>	Sizes ...