NEEDED! A good reference book on Standard 'C'

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Does anyone know of a good book besides K&R for Standard 'C'? I am in a Systems Programming class with no textbook that is about GNU 'C'. The professor is an old hand with GNU and insists we learn it so that we can modify and repair very old code bases written prior to C++? We have to write in Vim, compile at the command line, and debug with GDB. I have been unable to find one reference that covers all of these in one place. Perhaps it does not exist?
Thanks for you help, jimbob

Posted 18-Feb-11 2:59am

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Nish Nishant · Answer 1 · 2011-02-18T03:06:00

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Not a printed book, but a free online book specific to GNU C :

http://www.faqs.org/docs/learnc/[^]

Posted 18-Feb-11 3:06am

Nish Nishant

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Feb-11 9:35am

Thank you, I haven't seen C books for years, good to know.
This is GNU, how about C ISO standard compliance?
Hope I can trust you judgment... my 5.
--SA

Nish Nishant 18-Feb-11 9:37am

It will not be a one to one match, but his professor wants him to use and learn GNU C. So he should be okay I guess.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Feb-11 13:46pm

Aha, thanks.
--SA

Espen Harlinn 25-Feb-11 7:49am

Interesting link, my 5

Henry Minute · Answer 2 · 2011-02-18T07:27:00

Solution 4

Take a look at Top 10 C Language Resources[^]
and also
Useful Reference Books[^].

Posted 18-Feb-11 7:27am

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Espen Harlinn 25-Feb-11 7:48am

Good links, my 5

Richard MacCutchan · Answer 3 · 2011-02-18T03:16:00

Solution 2

Look here[^] for lots of resources.

Posted 18-Feb-11 3:16am

Richard MacCutchan

Updated 18-Feb-11 3:17am

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy · Answer 4 · 2011-02-18T04:51:00

Solution 3

Why the restriction "besides K&R", what is wrong with that?
I can only recommend to anyone Kernighan & Ritchie "The C Programming Language"[^] and from the same authors "The C answer book"[^].
Best buy I ever did (regarding books about C that is)!

Best Regards,

Posted 18-Feb-11 4:51am

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

Updated 18-Feb-11 5:16am

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Nish Nishant 18-Feb-11 13:31pm

He probably has it already and is asking for other suggestions?