Re: What platform is targeted in the C books?

From	Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject	Re: What platform is targeted in the C books?
Date	2017-12-01 08:58 -0800
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John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> writes:
> On Saturday, November 25, 2017 at 10:56:56 PM UTC-6, Elof Huang wrote:
>> I know there are lots of good c programing books, but don't know if the 
>> codes showed on the books are suitable for all platform? Windows? Linux? 
>> BSD?

> Books by K&R, Harbison & Steele, Deitel & Deitel, and King should
> be platform-agnostic - their examples shouldn't require the
> presence of platform-specific headers or system calls, and their
> examples should work anywhere you have a (conforming) C compiler.
> Note that this means all their examples are command-line driven,
> so they *do* assume you have some kind of command-line shell
> available (bash, CMD, etc.).

> There *are* books that target specific environments (such as
> how to do multi-threaded programming on Windows, or networking
> code on *nix, or GUI programming on Macs), but general-purpose
> C language references, as a rule, don't.

I'll note that K&R (both editions) has a section that covers the UNIX
system interface, but it's reasonably well separated from the rest of
the book.

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