16. Miscellaneous and Advanced Features

This chapter discusses some miscellaneous features of the C language that have not yet been covered and provides a discussion of some more advanced topics, such as command-line arguments and dynamic memory allocation. The topics presented in this chapter are varied, but they are important to know as you will see many of these concepts in C programs you encounter. Topics covered include

Image Understanding the goto statement, and why you should avoid it

Image Maximizing space by using unions

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