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Extreme C

You're reading from   Extreme C Taking you to the limit in Concurrency, OOP, and the most advanced capabilities of C

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789343625
Length 822 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kamran Amini Kamran Amini
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Essential Features FREE CHAPTER 2. From Source to Binary 3. Object Files 4. Process Memory Structure 5. Stack and Heap 6. OOP and Encapsulation 7. Composition and Aggregation 8. Inheritance and Polymorphism 9. Abstraction and OOP in C++ 10. Unix – History and Architecture 11. System Calls and Kernels 12. The Most Recent C 13. Concurrency 14. Synchronization 15. Thread Execution 16. Thread Synchronization 17. Process Execution 18. Process Synchronization 19. Single-Host IPC and Sockets 20. Socket Programming 21. Integration with Other Languages 22. Unit Testing and Debugging 23. Build Systems 24. Other Books You May Enjoy
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26. Index

Concurrency

Over the course of the next two chapters we are going to talk about concurrency and the theoretical background that is required for developing concurrent programs, not only in C, but necessarily in other languages as well. As such, these two chapters won't contain any C code and instead use pseudo-code to represent concurrent systems and their intrinsic properties.

The topic of concurrency, due to its length, has been split into two chapters. In this chapter we will be looking at the basic concepts regarding concurrency itself, before moving to Chapter 14, Synchronization, where we will discuss concurrency-related issues and the synchronization mechanisms used in concurrent programs to resolve said issues. The collective end goal of these two chapters is to provide you with enough theoretical knowledge to proceed with the multithreading and multi-processing topics discussed in upcoming chapters.

The background knowledge we build in this chapter will also be...

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