I've noticed the first sentence is very weird and doesn't make much sense. Also that isn't just a small mistake. But I can't edit my post anymore. I'm sorry.
I originally wanted to write more and point out some other important things. For example, “long long” never gets mentioned! This is not a good book to learn C. I believe it could be an adequate (or even good) one to train already existent C skills, but it isn't even that at the moment.
Okay, it isn't a final version. We have to wait until next year for that, but LCTHW gets too much positive attention for being just another less-than-mediocre tutorial book on the Internet.
Hilarious, I didn't pick that one up since it's in the later chapters I skipped..
The bstring thing and his safer copy function are still my favorites for the irony of it. He's sounds so condescending when he attacks C strings and an old K&R example. And then goes on to show how to do it wrong, without really even solving the problem he's trying to solve. And he keeps repeating the lie about C strings just being nothing but an array of chars.
I originally wanted to write more and point out some other important things. For example, “long long” never gets mentioned! This is not a good book to learn C. I believe it could be an adequate (or even good) one to train already existent C skills, but it isn't even that at the moment.
Okay, it isn't a final version. We have to wait until next year for that, but LCTHW gets too much positive attention for being just another less-than-mediocre tutorial book on the Internet.