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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

The Most Recent C

Change cannot be prevented, and C is no exception. The C programming language is standardized by an ISO standard, and it is constantly under revision by a group of people who are trying to make it better and bring new features to it. This doesn't mean that the language will necessarily get easier, however; we might see novel and complex features emerge in the language as new content is added.

In this chapter, we are going to have a brief look at C11's features. You might know that C11 has replaced the old C99 standard, and it has been superseded by the C18 standard. In other words, C18 is the latest version of the C standard, and just before that we had C11.

It's interesting to know that C18 doesn't offer any new features; it just contains fixes for the issues found in C11. Therefore, talking about C11 is basically the same as talking about C18, and it will lead us to the most recent C standard. As you can see, we are observing constant...

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