[prog] GNU C tutorial

[Sue Stones]

Let us know what you find out.

sue

On Wed, 28 May 2003 23:48, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
> This was prompted by Sue's question re the stack and the heap.
>
> Someone on one of these lists (I think) mentioned the GNU C Tutorial. 
> After some seaching I found it at
> http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/ctut-mb-rwhe/. The text is only available
> via CVS in texi format, but I have done a conversion to pdf format.  I will
> email it to anyone on request.
>
> A few warnings: The book is not complete.  Nor (it seems) will it ever be,
> since "This project has been cancelled due to unresolvable problems with
> the manuscript. We will start another book from scratch later. 2003-04-22
> Lisa M. Goldstein, Managing Editor, GNU Press".
>
> Personally, I'm not quite sure what the problems are.  I found the text
> (even in its incomplete state) very very useful.  I started reading it with
> zero knowledge of C.  I now think that I have a fighting chance of at least
> making some sense out of an existing piece of C code.  The reason I thought
> of it here is that gives quite a nice explanation of the stack and the heap
> etc.
>
> The document is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, so I
> believe I can make the pdf publically available.  I'm about to mail one of
> the current admins to make sure that this is the case.  (It may be that the
> original author has withdrawn his permission for it to be licensed under
> the GFDL... I can find no indication of what the cause of the unresolvable
> problems are.)  I would like to put up a public url to the document, but
> feel that I should not do so until its status is clarified.
>
> You can, of course, go to the homepage and do the pdf conversion yourself.
> The magic command is texi2pdf.  A can't remember if I had to do anything to
> the tex file to get it to run.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rasjid.