C The Complete Reference Fourth Edition

Herbert Schildt-PART I—　

FOUNDATIONAL C

This book divides its descr iption of the C language into two parts. Part One discusses those features

of C defined by the original, 1989 ANSI standard for C (commonly referred to as C89), along with

those additions contained in Amendment 1, adopted in 1995. At the time of this writing, this is the

version of C that is in widespread use and is the version of C that compilers are currently capable of

compiling. It is also the version of C that forms the foundation upon which C++ was built,





PART II—　

THE C99 STANDARD

Computer languages are not static　they evolve, reacting to changes in methodologies, applications

generally accepted practices, and hardware. C is no exception. In the case of C, two evolutionary

paths were set in motion. The first is the continuing development of the C language. The second is

C++, for which C provided the starting point. While most of the focus of the past several years has

been on C++, the refinement of C