[Courses] Re : C Programming for Absolute Beginners, text book?

[jim]

    Thanks. 
    One of the most helpful things in the various 
email responses is the links people use to learn. 
    (Interesting to note that gcc is C90 with some 
Gnu extensions.) 


On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 22:42 -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
> Hi Jim and everyone,
> 
> This page shows the status of gcc for the new C standards:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Standards.html
> I also spent some quality time with man gcc, and now I have a headache because 
> there are all these exceptions and ifs, ands, buts, and whatevers. The default 
> is gnu90, which is C90 with some GNU extensions. That's what we're going to 
> use in this course. Using the gcc options that support the newer standards is 
> simple; the hard part is reading and understanding them. So I'll probably not 
> address them in this course.
> 
> Carla
> 
> 
> > Carla,
> >         Re C89, C99 (and C90 and C11), thanks for mentioning
> > these. I had no idea these specs existed. I'd only known of
> > "K&R C" and "ANSI C".
> > 
> >     Briefly (I hope I can be brief), when I use a search
> > engine to look for "C programming C 89", the top-most link is
> > to a wikipedia page for ANSI C.
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_C
> >     The "89" part refers to the year, 1989. Best I can tell,
> > it's this spec people refer to when they talk about ANSI C.
> >     There's a C90 that seems to have tweaked the C89 spec a
> > bit.
> >     There's a C99 that "adopted the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard."
> > This seems to add a significant set of new features to the
> > language.
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99
> > 
> >     C11, done in 2011, seems to have added more changes to the
> > C programming language specification. According to the wikipedia
> > page for C11,
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11_%28C_standard_revision%29
> > C11 is "the current standard for the C programming language."
> > 
> > 
> >     On a more directly practical point, I have been assuming that
> > C Programming for Absolute Beginners will be an intro to ANSI C,
> > otherwise known as C89.
> >     I can happily just eat what's given me, but I'm curious to
> > know if this course will cover C99 and/or C11 features.
> > 
> >     You (and we) are certainly off to an exciting start.
> > 
> > More thanks,
> > jim
> > 
> > On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 20:38 -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > > > > When you look in /etc/alternatives you see another cc > gcc links,
> > > > > and how C89
> > > > > and C99 standards support are handled:
> > > > > 
> > > > > $ ls -l /etc/alternatives | grep cc
> > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  12 Jun  2  2011 cc -> /usr/bin/gcc
> > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  16 Jun  2  2011 c89 -> /usr/bin/c89-gcc
> > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  16 Jun  2  2011 c99 -> /usr/bin/c99-gcc
> > > > 
> > > > I do not have these files in my system, using of gcc v4.6 and fedora16.
> > > > $ ll /etc/alternatives/ | grep cc
> > > > $ gcc --version
> > > > gcc (GCC) 4.6.2 20111027 (Red Hat 4.6.2-1)
> > > > Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > > > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
> > > > NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> > > > PURPOSE.
> > > > 
> > > > Is that means my gcc does not have the compatibility with c89 and c99?
> > > > 
> > > > Best,
> > > > Chao
> > >  
> > >  I don't know, Chao, I'm running Debian so maybe Fedora packages it
> > > 
> > > differently. Any Fedora users out there who can shed some light?
> > > 
> > >  best,
> > > 
> > > Carla
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