Chapter 4. WHEN A PROGRAM CRASHES
It's said that C is a low-level language. Part of what is meant by this is that much of the memory management for an application program is left to the programmer to implement. Although this approach can be quite powerful, it also places a great responsibility on the programmer.
It's also said that C is a relatively small language and an easy one to learn. However, C is only small if you don't consider a typical implementation of the standard C library, which is hugeâand many programmers find C to be an easy language to use only up until they encounter pointers.
In general, a program bug can cause one ...
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