Need to upgrade my understanding

[Peter J. Holsberg]

In article <902 at daisy.UUCP> klee at daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee) writes:
|In article <3613 at killer.UUCP> bobc at 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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