C Programming

Some key writings on C for C programmers (from Henry Spencer, Dennis Richie, and others) is at http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ C programmers will enjoy this. Take a look.

POSIX Signals, C and C++

Occasionally folks are unaware of or misunderstand the rules on writing POSIX signal handlers in C and C++. So I've written a brief overview of POSIX signal handling pitfalls. Corrections and suggestions welcome.

When viewing the binary representation of a file I prefer to use a format I first saw in a utility provided by IBM in OS360 in 1964. So I wrote C code that prepares output in a similar format. Download the hxdump.c C source.

Also, see the palm extractor (C code).