What is a FAQ ? It’s a Frequently Asked Question. You can see FAQs just about everywhere in the online community. They originated in the USENET groups on the Internet as a way to answer users’ most common questions regarding the groups. The FAQs files were efficient. Instead of answering the same questions over and over, one file was written that contained all the frequently asked questions and answers to those questions.
This book is a comprehensive list of FAQs, assembled by a group of professional C programmers. This book contains the FAQs most often posed by our readers over our many years of publishing programming books. You won’t find a FAQ list that goes into as much detail as this book does. (Have you ever seen a 400-page FAQ list?)
Our team of expert programmers has tackled the toughest topics, including variables and data storage, sorting data, pointers and memory allocation, tables and arrays, debugging, portability, ANSI standards, and Windows concerns. If something in C is stumping you, odds are you’ll find an answer in this book. In addition, the extensive cross referencing in this book will help you find the answer you need—even if you start out looking in the wrong spot.
