August 18th, 2008 | No Comments »
On POSIX-compliant systems, the C compiler is called c89. Historically, the C compiler was simply called cc. Over the years, different vendors have sold UNIX-like systems with C compilers with different facilities and options, but often still called cc.
When the POSIX standard was prepared, it was impossible to define a standard cc command with which [...]
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August 18th, 2008 | No Comments »
Many people think that programming Linux means using C. It’s true that UNIX was originally written in C and that the majority of UNIX applications are written in C, but C is not the only option available to Linux programmers, or UNIX programmers for that matter. In the course of the book, we’ll introduce a [...]
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