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Modern C
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Modern C

by Jens Gustedt
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
15h 22m
English
Manning Publications
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Level 3. Experience

The alpine chough lives and breeds in the thin air of high altitudes and has been seen above 8000 m in the Himalayas.

In this level, we go more deeply into details about specific topics. The first, performance, is one of the primary reasons C is chosen over other programming languages. Therefore, chapter 15 is a mandatory read for all C software designers.

The second topic is a feature that is quite specific to C: function-like macros. Because of their complexity and obvious ugliness, they are much frowned upon by other programming communities. Nevertheless, it is important to master them to a certain extent, because they ...

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