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Extreme C

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Product type Book

Published in Oct 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789343625

Pages 822 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Kamran Amini

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

1. Essential Features

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

POSIX concurrency control

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

Stack

A process can continue working without the Heap segment but not without the Stack segment. This says a lot. The Stack is the main part of the process metabolism, and it cannot continue execution without it. The reason is hiding behind the mechanism driving the function calls. As briefly explained in the previous chapter, calling a function can only be done by using the Stack segment. Without a Stack segment, no function call can be made, and this means no execution at all.

With that said, the Stack segment and its contents are engineered carefully to result in the healthy execution of the process. Therefore, messing with the Stack content can disrupt the execution and halt the process. Allocation from the Stack segment is fast, and it doesn't need any special function call. More than that, the deallocation and all memory management tasks happen automatically. All these facts are all very tempting and encourage you to overuse the Stack.

You should be careful about...

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Authors (1)

Kamran Amini

Kamran Amini is an expert software architect with more than 10 years of experience in the analysis, design, development, and building large-scale, distributed enterprise software systems. His skills are not limited to a specific development platform and Kamrans architectural solutions include a variety of technologies, patterns, and concepts based on C and C++, Java, Python, etc. As an enterprise architect, hes always faced strict and risky conditions in which security, performance, data consistency and correctness, fault tolerance and high availability, authentication and authorization have always been important factors. His passion towards C and C++ has started since his teenage as a lead for his high schools soccer simulation team and hes just put it to be his main axis in the career. In recent years, he has just attended to study astrophysics degree because of his interest in astronomy and the wonder of night sky since his childhood and he has plans to be a data scientist and machine learning expert with focus on astrophysical data. Recently, blockchain and cryptocurrencies have been the target of his research and interest and because of his deep knowledge about classic cryptography and PKI, working on the expansion of the future possible usages and alternative blockchains are among his interests.

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