The C Book — Disclaimer and Copyright Notice
The first edition of this book was based on a late draft of the ANSI
standard for C and is copyright Mike Banahan. This online version is a
reproduction of the second edition based on the published ANSI standard. The
second edition was published in 1991, copyright Mike Banahan, Declan Brady and
Mark Doran. By agreement with Declan Brady and Mark Doran, copyright in this
online version and derived works is copyright Mike Banahan, 2003. The print
versions were published by Addison Wesley.
This online version is derived from files in Unix nroff format discovered on
a floppy disk just prior to a move of offices by GBdirect Ltd. It is believed that the
files were were used by the publishers Addison Wesley in the preparation of the
second print edition and that some amendments or corrections may have been made
in the print version that are not reflected in this online version. The online
version was prepared with the assistance of some Perl scripts written by Mike
Banahan, by Steve King, who cleaned up the output of the Perl scripts and also
by sterling work by Geoff Richards and Aaron Crane who performed magic with
XSLT to produce the HTML documents.
The publication of the online version is for historical interest
and readers are warned that it should be treated as an historical
document. There is now a later standard for the C programming language
and this publication cannot be considered current: whilst for the most
part the current and the first standard are very close, some
substantive changes and extensions have occurred since 1991.
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