May 22, 2015 the C book is freely available on-line. It is not really a reference manual, but still a pretty good resource. From the website: This is the online version of The C Book, second edition by Mike Banahan, Declan Brady and Mark Doran, originally published by Addison Wesley in 1991.
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I've studied C programming in college some years ago and have developed some medium applications back then (nothing serious). Now I have to develop some more 'advanced' C applications (involving POSIX threads and RPC), but right now I'm a little rusty even with the basics.
Can anyone recommend me good online C reference manuals? This may help me get in tune faster.
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- GNU C tutorial (more than just a tutorial, quite a useful reference)
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For the very basic I found this reference card very useful. Doesn't help with more advanced functions but it can help get the rust off.
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Don't forget man pages. If you are developing on any UNIX-derived platform (Linux, BSD, Cygwin) you can almost always do something like
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It's not online, but hands down the best C reference is Harbison & Steele (yeah - it's better than K&R).
You can get the 4th edition for basically shipping (I don't know what improvements were made in the 5th ed.):
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The best C reference by far is Kernighan and Ritchie's 'The C Programming Language' in it's dead tree form. It's compact and complete.
For an online reference, you might try Brian Kernighan's Programming in C Tutorial.
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the C book is freely availableon-line. It is not really a referencemanual, but still a pretty goodresource. From the website:
This is the online version of The C Book, second edition by Mike Banahan, Declan Brady and Mark Doran, originally published by Addison Wesley in 1991. This version is made freely available.
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While this book is no longer in print, its content is still very relevant today. The C language is still popular, particularly for open source software and embedded programming. We hope this book will be useful, or at least interesting, to people who use C.
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I would recommend reading through the comp.lang.c FAQ at least once to help get the rust off. For reference material, you might want to grab a copy of the C Standard, the latest version of C99 with TC3 included is available for free here, for C89 the last draft version is available as a text file or you can pick up a copy of the The Annotated ANSI C Standard for a few bucks and have a hard copy of the actual standard (just ignore the 'annotations' on the right-hand pages). Since you are using POSIX you might want to become more familiar with the Single Unix Specification which includes the Standard C library as well as the POSIX functions, you can read/download SUSv3 at the Open Group (registration required but free and quick).
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For an offline resource I would also recommend C: A Reference Manual (5th Edition) by Harbison & Steele, it thoroughly covers every language feature and standard function of C and documents differences between the various standard versions.
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The best online reference for C and C++ is probably www.cplusplus.com
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