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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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Chapter 17. Variations in control flow

This chapter covers

  • Understanding normal sequencing of statements in C
  • Making short and long jumps through code
  • Function control flow
  • Handling signals

The control flow (see figure 2.1) of program execution describes how the individual statements of the program code are sequenced: that is, which statement is executed after another. Up to now, we have mostly looked at code that let us deduce this control flow from syntax and a controlling expression. That way, each function can be described using a hierarchical composition of basic blocks. A basic block is a maximum sequence of statements such that once execution starts at the first of these statements, it continues unconditionally until the last, and ...

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