c-handbook
Concepts good to know for C programmers
Table of Contents
ANSI C
A standard implementation of C published by the American National Standards Institute in 1989.
buffer
A temporary storage area.
file descriptor
An abstract indicator for accessing a file.
K&R C
An informal specification of C from the book "The C Programming Language" by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.
memory leak
A block of memory that is allocated by a programmer, but is not deallocated.
pointer
A memory address of another piece of data.
stream
A sequential flow of data.