Programming in C, Third Edition

Appendix B. The Standard C Library

THE STANDARD C LIBRARY CONTAINS a large selection of functions that might be called from a C program. This section does not list all of these functions, but rather most of the more commonly used ones. For a complete listing of all the functions that are available, consult the documentation that was included with your compiler, or check one of the resources listed in Appendix E, “Resources.”

Among the routines not described in this appendix are ones for manipulating the date and time (such as time, ctime, and localtime), performing nonlocal jumps (setjmp and longjmp), generating diagnostics (assert), handling a variable number of arguments (va_list, va_start, va_arg, and va_end), handling signals (signal and