The C Programming Language

This page is a collection of links related to the C programming language.

People

Brian W. Kernighan
Dennis Ritchie
P.J. Plauger
Rob Pike
Steve Summit

Free Compilers

GNU C Compiler: The most famous and widely used at present. Primarly for Unix and Unix-like platforms.
DJGPP: Port of the GNU development utilties to the Intel 32-bit platforms.
Cygwin: This is an environment and a port of most GNU utilties including the GCC set to the Windows platform.
MinGW: Minimalist GNU for Windows. Includes support for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).
Turbo C: Remember Turbo C from Borland? Now it is available as a free download. Though it's a little out of date, it still is extremely usable.
Borland C++ Builder: The compiler and command line tools are available as a free download.
OpenWatcom Compilers: The original Watcom compilers are now available as open source software.
Digital Mars C/C++ Compiler: Offshoot of the Zortech/Symantec C/C++ Compilers (probably it is the Zortech compiler re-incarnated). Touted as drop in replacements for the Symantec C/C++ compilers.
lcc: Portable compiler for ANSI C.
lcc-win32: Free for non-commerical use. Windows support with IDE, etc.
Pelles C: Based on lcc. With IDE, etc for Windows platform.
Ch: This is actually an interpreter. Standard edition is free.
EiC: Extensible Interactive C. Another interpreter.

References

Dinkum C Library Reference
The International C Standardization Working Group: Links to the actual standards and other documents
Steve Summit's C FAQ: Online version. There is also a book.
Whats new in C9X: Some information on new things added to the C language by ISO C99 (By Thomas Wolf). The official list is here.
C Library Reference
A tutorial on C pointers

Books

C Programming Language, Brian W. Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie, Prentice-Hall Publishing: The original book that introduced the C programming language. Popularly known as K&R.

The Practice of Programming, Brian W. Kernighan & Rob Pike, Addison-Wesley, Inc.

The Elements of Programming Style, Brian W. Kernighan & PJ Plauger

The Standard C Library, PJ Plauger

Standard C: A Reference, PJ Plauger & Jim Brodie

The Practice of Programming, Brian W. Kernighan & Rob Pike

C: A Reference Manual, Samuel P. Harbison & Guy L. Steele

The C Book (Online Edition)

Interesting Articles

History of development of the C programming language

Henry Spencer's Ten Commandments for C Programmers

Rob Pike on C Style

Writing bug-free C code

Tutorials

Introductory C Programming

Debugging and Analyzing C and C++ Programs

Programming, Tools & Resources

Cyclone is a safe dialect of C being developed at AT&T Research in collaboration with Cornell University

Vault is a safe version of the C language being developed at Microsoft Research

Information about a whole bunch of code comprehension tools is here

cinclude2dot (old, new): Generates a graph of the #include relationships within a C source tree using graphviz

Doxygen: Generate documentation from source code

Splint is a sophisticated lint program that also checks for security vulnerabilities in C code

GCC Translation Framework (including ANSI & GNU C Parser and Lexer)

Visualize Function Calls with GraphViz

Run-time function call tree with gcc

CIL - Infrastructure for C Program Analysis and Transformation : A tool to translate normally used C (including GNU C) into a simple subset that is easier to use in translation and program analysis.

The LLVM Compile Infrastructure : Low-Level Virtual Machine is a sort of intermediate virtual machine for which compilers can generate code. This supposedly provides better scope for optimization techniques (by analysis of the LLVM generated code). This infrastructure has a GCC based C & C++ front-end, their own linker that does the optimization and back-ends for various target platforms.

Frama-C : Framework for Modular Analysis of C : Suite of tools that builds on CIL mentioned above for use in static analysis of C based programs. Binaries for Linux, Windows and OS X.

Yacfe : From the announcement -- "Yet Another C/C++ Front-End, which is an OCaml API to write style-preserving source-to-source transformations such as refactorings on C or C++ source code"

LibFIRM : LibFIRM is a library that provides an intermediate representation (FIRM) that can be used to perform optimizations by compilers. Programs are represented as a graph. cparser is a parser, lexer and semantic analyzer for the ISO C99 language based on LibFIRM.

pycparser : pycparser is a parser for the C language written in Python. pycparser is by Eli Bendersky.

Miscellaneous

A wonderful collection of links and information is here

The International Obfuscated C Code Contest

J. Blustein's C Programming Language Resources

Bit Twiddling Hacks - A comprehensive collection of code-snippets in C with explanations to help speed up bit-manipulation

C Optimization Tips - Optimization tips that can be used when coding in C

Steve Friedl's famous guide to reading C type declarations

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