Preface
Preface to the Second Edition
In the Preface to the First Edition, I stated that "you will find a particular way to make C work for you." I must admit that I myself was a victim of this trap. It turns out that because I had learned C before 1990, I was not as familiar with important C99 features as I should have been. I was guilty of thinking with my older C version habits. This outdated thinking was reflected largely in the chapter on enumerations and especially in the chapter introducing arrays, where Variable-Length Arrays (VLAs) – a major feature of C99 – were poorly covered. Both of these chapters have been completely rewritten to accurately represent the C standard.
I especially want to thank readers who pointed out the various ...
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