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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need to upgrade my understanding
Message-ID: <474@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 15:09:43 GMT
References: <3613@killer.UUCP> <902@daisy.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
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In article <902@daisy.UUCP> klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee) writes:
|In article <3613@killer.UUCP> bobc@killer.UUCP (Bob Calbridge) writes:
|>Having gone as far as I can go with a beginners book on Unix and C I need
|>to take a step up in both.  Rather than ask random questions to the net 
|>when a problem arises I would rather have the name of some commonly 
|>available books that take an orderly approach to understanding the innards
|>of both.
|
|As far as "C internals" goes, I think you'll have to stick with the AT&T
|(or other developers) manuals.  Internals vary quite a bit between products.
|Johnson's "A Tour Through the Portable C Compiler" is probably the most
|generic.
|

I'm finding Allen Holub's "The C Companion" interesting because of the
way he tries to present assembler code that shows how things are done in
C.  Gets into stack frames, etc. -- all the things a typical HLL
programmer never hears about.



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