[Last modified : 2006-11-30]
<assert.h>
: Diagnostics <ctype.h>
: Character Class Tests <errno.h>
: Error Codes Reported by (Some) Library Functions <float.h>
: Implementation-defined Floating-Point Limits <limits.h>
: Implementation-defined Limits <locale.h>
: Locale-specific Information <math.h>
: Mathematical Functions <setjmp.h>
: Non-local Jumps <signal.h>
: Signals <stdarg.h>
: Variable Argument Lists <stddef.h>
: Definitions of General Use <stdio.h>
: Input and Output <stdlib.h>
: Utility functions <string.h>
: String functions <time.h>
: Time and Date functions void assert(int expression);
NDEBUG
is defined where
<assert.h>
is included.) If
expression equals zero, message printed on
stderr
and
abort called to terminate execution. Source filename and line number in message are from preprocessor macros
__FILE__
and
__LINE__
.
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int isalnum(int c);
isalpha(c)
or
isdigit(c)
int isalpha(int c);
isupper(c)
or
islower(c)
int iscntrl(int c);
0x00
(
NUL
) to
0x1F
(
US
), and
0x7F
(
DEL
)
int isdigit(int c);
int isgraph(int c);
int islower(int c);
int isprint(int c);
0x20
(
' '
) to
0x7E
(
'~'
)
int ispunct(int c);
int isspace(int c);
int isupper(int c);
int isxdigit(int c);
int tolower(int c);
int toupper(int c);
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errno
EDOM
ERANGE
Notes:
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FLT_RADIX
FLT_ROUNDS
Where the prefix "FLT
" pertains to type float
, "DBL
" to type double
, and "LDBL
" to type long double
:
FLT_DIG
DBL_DIG
LDBL_DIG
FLT_EPSILON
DBL_EPSILON
LDBL_EPSILON
1.0 + x != 1.0
FLT_MANT_DIG
DBL_MANT_DIG
LDBL_MANT_DIG
FLT_RADIX
, in mantissa
FLT_MAX
DBL_MAX
LDBL_MAX
FLT_MAX_EXP
DBL_MAX_EXP
LDBL_MAX_EXP
FLT_RADIX
can be raised and remain representable
FLT_MIN
DBL_MIN
LDBL_MIN
FLT_MIN_EXP
DBL_MIN_EXP
LDBL_MIN_EXP
FLT_RADIX
can be raised and remain representable
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CHAR_BIT
char
CHAR_MAX
char
CHAR_MIN
char
SCHAR_MAX
signed char
SCHAR_MIN
signed char
UCHAR_MAX
unsigned char
SHRT_MAX
short
SHRT_MIN
short
USHRT_MAX
unsigned short
INT_MAX
int
INT_MIN
int
UINT_MAX
unsigned int
LONG_MAX
long
LONG_MIN
long
ULONG_MAX
unsigned long
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struct lconv
char* decimal_point;
char* grouping;
char* thousands_sep;
char* currency_symbol;
char* int_curr_symbol;
char* mon_decimal_point;
char* mon_grouping;
char* mon_thousands_sep;
char* negative_sign;
char* positive_sign;
char frac_digits;
char int_frac_digits;
char n_cs_precedes;
1
) or follows (
0
) negative monetary values
char n_sep_by_space;
1
) or is not (
0
) separated by space from negative monetary values
char n_sign_posn;
0
1
2
3
4
char p_cs_precedes;
1
) or follows (
0
) positive monetary values
char p_sep_by_space;
1
) or is not (
0
) separated by space from non-negative monetary values
char p_sign_posn;
n_sign_posn
decimal_point
.
struct lconv* localeconv(void);
char* setlocale(int category, const char* locale);
category
and
locale
. Returns string describing new locale or null on error. (Implementations are permitted to define values of
category
additional to those describe here.)
LC_ALL
category
argument for all categories
LC_NUMERIC
category
for numeric formatting information
LC_MONETARY
category
for monetary formatting information
LC_COLLATE
category
for information affecting collating functions
LC_CTYPE
category
for information affecting
character class tests functions
LC_TIME
category
for information affecting time conversions functions
NULL
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On domain error, implementation-defined value returned and errno
set to EDOM
. On range error, errno
set to ERANGE
and return value is HUGE_VAL
with correct sign for overflow, or zero for underflow. Angles are in radians.
HUGE_VAL
double exp(double x);
x
double log(double x);
x
double log10(double x);
x
double pow(double x, double y);
x
raised to power
y
double sqrt(double x);
x
double ceil(double x);
x
double floor(double x);
x
double fabs(double x);
x
double ldexp(double x, int n);
x
times 2 to the power
n
double frexp(double x, int* exp);
x
non-zero, returns value, with absolute value in interval [1/2, 1), and assigns to
*exp
integer such that product of return value and 2 raised to the power
*exp
equals
x
; if
x
zero, both return value and
*exp
are zero
double modf(double x, double* ip);
*ip
integral part of
x
, both with same sign as
x
double fmod(double x, double y);
y
non-zero, floating-point remainder of
x/y
, with same sign as
x
; if
y
zero, result is implementation-defined
double sin(double x);
x
double cos(double x);
x
double tan(double x);
x
double asin(double x);
x
double acos(double x);
x
double atan(double x);
x
double atan2(double y, double x);
y/x
double sinh(double x);
x
double cosh(double x);
x
double tanh(double x);
x
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jmp_buf
int setjmp(jmp_buf env);
env
and returns zero. Subsequent call to
longjmp
with same
env returns non-zero.
void longjmp(jmp_buf env, int val);
setjmp
with specified
env
. Execution resumes as a second return from
setjmp
, with returned value
val
if specified value non-zero, or 1 otherwise.
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SIGABRT
SIGFPE
SIGILL
SIGINT
SIGSEGV
SIGTERM
SIG_DFL
SIG_ERR
signal
return value indicating error
SIG_IGN
void (*signal(int sig, void (*handler)(int)))(int);
handler
is
SIG_DFL
, implementation-defined default behaviour will be used; if
SIG_IGN
, signal will be ignored; otherwise function pointed to by
handler
will be invoked with argument
sig. In the last case, handling is
restored to default behaviour before
handler
is called. If
handler
returns, execution resumes where signal occurred.
signal
returns the previous handler or
SIG_ERR
on error. Initial state is implementation-defined. Implementations may may define signals additional to those listed here.
int raise(int sig);
sig
. Returns zero on success.
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va_list
void va_start(va_list ap, lastarg);
ap
.
lastarg
is the last named parameter of the function.
type va_arg(va_list ap, type);
type
) and value of the next unnamed argument.
void va_end(va_list ap);
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NULL
offsetof(stype, m)
m
from start of structure type
stype
.
ptrdiff_t
size_t
sizeof
operator.
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BUFSIZ
setbuf
.
EOF
FILENAME_MAX
FOPEN_MAX
L_tmpnam
tmpnam
.
NULL
SEEK_CUR
origin
argument to
fseek
specifying current file position.
SEEK_END
origin
argument to
fseek
specifying end of file.
SEEK_SET
origin
argument to
fseek
specifying beginning of file.
TMP_MAX
tmpnam
.
_IOFBF
mode
argument to
setvbuf
specifying full buffering.
_IOLBF
mode
argument to
setvbuf
specifying line buffering.
_IONBF
mode
argument to
setvbuf
specifying no buffering.
stdin
stdout
stderr
FILE
fpos_t
size_t
sizeof
operator.
FILE* fopen(const char* filename, const char* mode);
filename
and returns a stream, or
NULL
on failure.
mode
may be one of the following for text files:
"r"
"w"
"a"
"r+"
"w+"
"a+"
b
included (after the first character), for binary files.
FILE* freopen(const char* filename, const char* mode, FILE* stream);
stream
, then opens file
filename
with specified mode and associates it with
stream
. Returns
stream
or
NULL
on error.
int fflush(FILE* stream);
stream
and returns zero on success or
EOF on error. Effect undefined for input stream.
fflush(NULL)
flushes all output streams.
int fclose(FILE* stream);
EOF
on error, zero otherwise.
int remove(const char* filename);
int rename(const char* oldname, const char* newname);
oldname
to
newname
. Returns non-zero on failure.
FILE* tmpfile();
"wb+"
) which will be removed when closed or on normal program termination. Returns stream or
NULL
on failure.
char* tmpnam(char s[L_tmpnam]);
s
(if
s
non-null) and returns unique name for a temporary file. Unique name is returned for each of the first
TMP_MAX
invocations.
int setvbuf(FILE* stream, char* buf, int mode, size_t size);
stream
.
mode
is
_IOFBF
for full buffering,
_IOLBF
for line buffering,
_IONBF
for no buffering. Non-null
buf
specifies buffer of size
size
to be used; otherwise, a buffer is allocated. Returns non-zero on error. Call must be before any other operation on stream.
void setbuf(FILE* stream, char* buf);
buf
, turns off buffering, otherwise equivalent to
(void)setvbuf(stream, buf, _IOFBF, BUFSIZ)
.
int fprintf(FILE* stream, const char* format, ...);
format
) and writes output to stream
stream
. Number of characters written, or negative value on error, is returned. Conversion specifications consist of:
%
-
+
0
#
o
, first digit will be zero, for [
xX
], prefix
0x
or
0X
to non-zero value, for [
eEfgG
], always decimal point, for [
gG
] trailing zeros not removed.
*
, value taken from next argument (which must be int
). .
(separating width from precision): s
, maximum characters to be printed from the string, for [eEf
], digits after decimal point, for [gG
], significant digits, for an integer, minimum number of digits to be printed. If specified as *
, value taken from next argument (which must be int
). h
short
or
unsigned short
l
long
or
unsigned long
L
long double
d,i
int
argument, printed in signed decimal notation
o
int
argument, printed in unsigned octal notation
x,X
int
argument, printed in unsigned hexadecimal notation
u
int
argument, printed in unsigned decimal notation
c
int
argument, printed as single character
s
char*
argument
f
double
argument, printed with format [
-
]
mmm
.
ddd
e,E
double
argument, printed with format [
-
]
m
.
dddddd(
e
|
E
)(
+
|
-
)
xx
g,G
double
argument
p
void*
argument, printed as pointer
n
int*
argument : the number of characters written to this point is written
into argument
%
int printf(const char* format, ...);
printf(f, ...)
is equivalent to
fprintf(stdout, f, ...)
int sprintf(char* s, const char* format, ...);
s
, which
must be large enough to hold the output, rather than to a stream. Output is
NUL
-terminated. Returns length (excluding the terminating
NUL
).
int vfprintf(FILE* stream, const char* format, va_list arg);
fprintf
with variable argument list replaced by
arg
, which must have been initialised by the
va_start
macro (and may have been used in calls to
va_arg
).
int vprintf(const char* format, va_list arg);
printf
with variable argument list replaced by
arg
, which must have been initialised by the
va_start
macro (and may have been used in calls to
va_arg
).
int vsprintf(char* s, const char* format, va_list arg);
sprintf
with variable argument list replaced by
arg
, which must have been initialised by the
va_start
macro (and may have been used in calls to
va_arg
).
int fscanf(FILE* stream, const char* format, ...);
stream
according to format
format
. The function returns when
format
is fully processed. Returns number of items converted and assigned, or
EOF
if end-of-file or error occurs before any conversion. Each of the arguments following
format
must be a pointer. Format string may contain:
%
*
" h
short
rather than
int
l
long
rather than
int
, or
double
rather than
float
L
long double
rather than
float
d
int*
parameter required
i
int*
parameter required; decimal, octal or hex
o
int*
parameter required
u
unsigned int*
parameter required
x
int*
parameter required
c
char*
parameter required; white-space is not skipped, and
NUL
-termination is not performed
s
char*
parameter required; string is
NUL
-terminated
e,f,g
float*
parameter required
p
void*
parameter required
n
int*
parameter required
[...]
char*
parameter required; string is
NUL
-terminated
[^...]
char*
parameter required; string is
NUL
-terminated
%
%
; no assignment
int scanf(const char* format, ...);
scanf(f, ...)
is equivalent to
fscanf(stdin, f, ...)
int sscanf(char* s, const char* format, ...);
fscanf
, but input read from string
s
.
int fgetc(FILE* stream);
stream
, or
EOF
on end-of-file or error.
char* fgets(char* s, int n, FILE* stream);
stream
to
s
, stopping when
n
-1 characters copied, newline copied, end-of-file reached or error occurs. If no error,
s
is
NUL
-terminated. Returns
NULL
on end-of-file or error,
s
otherwise.
fputc(int c, FILE* stream);
c
, to stream
stream
. Returns
c
, or
EOF
on error.
char* fputs(const char* s, FILE* stream);
s
, to (output) stream stream. Returns non-negative on success or
EOF
on error.
int getc(FILE* stream);
fgetc
except that it may be a macro.
int getchar(void);
getc(stdin)
.
char* gets(char* s);
stdin
into
s
until newline encountered, end-of-file reached, or error occurs. Does not copy newline.
NUL
-terminates
s
. Returns
s
, or
NULL
on end-of-file or error.
Should not be used because of the potential for buffer overflow.
int putc(int c, FILE* stream);
fputc
except that it may be a macro.
int putchar(int c);
putchar(c)
is equivalent to
putc(c, stdout)
.
int puts(const char* s);
s
(excluding terminating
NUL
) and a newline to
stdout
. Returns non-negative on success,
EOF
on error.
int ungetc(int c, FILE* stream);
c
(which must not be
EOF
), onto (input) stream
stream
such that it will be returned by the next read. Only one character of pushback is guaranteed (for each stream). Returns
c
, or
EOF
on error.
size_t fread(void* ptr, size_t size, size_t nobj, FILE* stream);
nobj
objects of size
size
from stream
stream
into
ptr
and returns number of objects read. (
feof
and
ferror
can be used to check status.)
size_t fwrite(const void* ptr, size_t size, size_t nobj, FILE* stream);
stream
,
nobj
objects of size
size
from array
ptr
. Returns number of objects written.
int fseek(FILE* stream, long offset, int origin);
stream
and clears end-of-file indicator. For a binary stream, file position is set to
offset
bytes from the position indicated by
origin
: beginning of file for
SEEK_SET
, current position for
SEEK_CUR
, or end of file for
SEEK_END
. Behaviour is similar for a text stream, but
offset
must be zero or, for
SEEK_SET
only, a value returned by
ftell
. Returns non-zero on error.
long ftell(FILE* stream);
stream
, or
-1
on error.
void rewind(FILE* stream);
fseek(stream, 0L, SEEK_SET); clearerr(stream)
.
int fgetpos(FILE* stream, fpos_t* ptr);
stream
in
*ptr
. Returns non-zero on error.
int fsetpos(FILE* stream, const fpos_t* ptr);
*ptr
. Returns non-zero on error.
void clearerr(FILE* stream);
stream
.
int feof(FILE* stream);
stream
.
int ferror(FILE* stream);
stream
.
void perror(const char* s);
s
(if non-null) and
strerror(errno)
to standard error as would:
fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s\n", (s != NULL ? s : ""), strerror(errno))
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EXIT_FAILURE
status
argument to
exit
indicating failure.
EXIT_SUCCESS
status
argument to
exit
indicating success.
RAND_MAX
rand()
.
NULL
div_t
div()
. Structure having members:
int quot;
int rem;
ldiv_t
ldiv()
. Structure having members:
long quot;
long rem;
size_t
sizeof
operator.
int abs(int n);
long labs(long n);
n
.
div_t div(int num, int denom);
ldiv_t ldiv(long num, long denom);
num/denom
.
double atof(const char* s);
strtod(s, (char**)NULL)
except that
errno
is not necessarily set on conversion error.
int atoi(const char* s);
(int)strtol(s, (char**)NULL, 10)
except that
errno
is not necessarily set on conversion error.
long atol(const char* s);
strtol(s, (char**)NULL, 10)
except that
errno
is not necessarily set on conversion error.
double strtod(const char* s, char** endp);
s
to type
double
. If
endp
non-null, stores pointer to unconverted suffix in
*endp
. On overflow, sets
errno
to
ERANGE
and returns
HUGE_VAL
with the appropriate sign; on underflow, sets
errno
to
ERANGE
and returns zero; otherwise returns converted value.
long strtol(const char* s, char** endp, int base);
s
to type
long
. If
endp
non-nu ll, stores pointer to unconverted suffix in
*endp
. If
base
between 2 and 36, that base used for conversion; if zero, leading (after any sign)
0X
or
0x
implies hexadecimal, leading
0
(after any sign) implies octal, otherwise decimal assumed. Leading
0X
or
0x
permitted for base hexadecimal. On overflow, sets
errno
to
ERANGE
and returns
LONG_MAX
or
LONG_MIN
(as appropriate for sign); otherwise returns converted value.
unsigned long strtoul(const char* s, char** endp, int base);
strtol
except result is
unsigned long
and value on overflow is
ULONG_MAX
.
void* calloc(size_t nobj, size_t size);
nobj
objects each of size
size
, or
NULL
on error.
void* malloc(size_t size);
NULL
on error.
void* realloc(void* p, size_t size);
size
, initialised, to minimum of old and new sizes, to existing contents of
p
(if non-null), or
NULL
on error. On success, old object deallocated, otherwise unchanged.
void free(void* p);
p
non-null, deallocates space to which it points.
void abort();
raise(SIGABRT)
.
void exit(int status);
atexit
are called (in reverse order to that in which installed), open files are flushed, open streams are closed and control is returned to environment.
status
is returned to environment in implementation-dependent manner. Zero or
EXIT_SUCCESS
indicates successful termination and
EXIT_FAILURE
indicates unsuccessful termination. Implementations may define other values.
int atexit(void (*fcm)(void));
fcn
to be called when program terminates normally (or when
main
returns). Returns non-zero on failure.
int system(const char* s);
s
is not
NULL
, passes
s
to environment for execution, and returns status reported by command processor; if
s
is
NULL
, non-zero returned if environment has a command processor.
char* getenv(const char* name);
name
from implementation's environment, or
NULL
if no such string exists.
void* bsearch(const void* key, const void* base, size_t n, size_t size, int (*cmp)(const void* keyval, const void* datum));
base
(of
n
objects each of size
size
) for item matching
key
according to comparison function
cmp
.
cmp
must return negative value if first argument is less than second, zero if equal and positive if greater. Items of
base
are assumed to be in ascending order (according to
cmp
). Returns a pointer to an item matching
key
, or
NULL
if none found.
void qsort(void* base, size_t n, size_t size, int (*cmp)(const void*, const void*));
base
(of
n
objects each of size
size
) according to comparison function
cmp
.
cmp
must return negative value if first argument is less than second, zero if equal and positive if greater.
int rand(void);
0
to
RAND_MAX
.
void srand(unsigned int seed);
seed
as seed for new sequence of pseudo-random numbers. Initial seed is
1
.
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NULL
size_t
sizeof
operator.
char* strcpy(char* s, const char* ct);
ct
to
s
including terminating
NUL
and returns
s
.
char* strncpy(char* s, const char* ct, size_t n);
n
characters of
ct
to
s
. Pads with
NUL
characters if
ct
is of length less than
n
.
Note that this may leave s
without NUL
-termination. Return
s
.
char* strcat(char* s, const char* ct);
ct
to
s
and return
s
.
char* strncat(char* s, const char* ct, size_t n);
n
characters of
ct
to
s
.
NUL
-terminates
s
and return it.
int strcmp(const char* cs, const char* ct);
cs
with
ct
, returning negative value if
cs<ct
, zero if
cs==ct
, positive value if
cs>ct
.
int strncmp(const char* cs, const char* ct, size_t n);
n
characters of
cs
and
ct
, returning negative value if
cs<ct
, zero if
cs==ct
, positive value if
cs>ct
.
int strcoll(const char* cs, const char* ct);
cs
with
ct
according to locale, returning negative value if
cs<ct
, zero if
cs==ct
, positive value if
cs>ct
.
char* strchr(const char* cs, int c);
c
in
cs
, or
NULL
if not found.
char* strrchr(const char* cs, int c);
c
in
cs
, or
NULL
if not found.
size_t strspn(const char* cs, const char* ct);
cs
which consists of characters which are in
ct
.
size_t strcspn(const char* cs, const char* ct);
cs
which consists of characters which are
not in
ct
.
char* strpbrk(const char* cs, const char* ct);
cs
of any character of
ct
, or
NULL
if none is found.
char* strstr(const char* cs, const char* ct);
ct
within
cs
, or
NULL
if none is found.
size_t strlen(const char* cs);
cs
.
char* strerror(int n);
n
.
char* strtok(char* s, const char* t);
s
for next token delimited by any character from
ct
. Non-
NULL
s
indicates the first call of a sequence. If a token is found, it is
NUL
-terminated and returned, otherwise
NULL
is returned.
ct
need not be identical for each call in a sequence.
size_t strxfrm(char* s, const char* ct, size_t n);
s
no more than
n
characters (including terminating
NUL
) of a string produced from
ct
according to a locale-specific transformation. Returns length of
entire transformed string.
void* memcpy(void* s, const void* ct, size_t n);
n
characters from
ct
to
s
and returns
s
.
s
may be corrupted if objects overlap.
void* memmove(void* s, const void* ct, size_t n);
n
characters from
ct
to
s
and returns
s
.
s
will not be corrupted if objects overlap.
int memcmp(const void* cs, const void* ct, size_t n);
n
characters of
cs
and
ct
, returning negative value if
cs<ct
, zero if
cs==ct
, positive value if
cs>ct
.
void* memchr(const void* cs, int c, size_t n);
c
in first
n
characters of
cs
, or
NULL
if not found.
void* memset(void* s, int c, size_t n);
n
characters of
s
by
c
and returns
s
.
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CLOCKS_PER_SEC
clock_t
units per second.
NULL
clock_t
time_t
struct tm
int tm_sec;
int tm_min;
int tm_hour;
int tm_mday;
int tm_mon;
int tm_year;
int tm_wday;
int tm_yday;
int tm_isdst;
clock_t clock(void);
-1
if not available.
time_t time(time_t* tp);
-1
if not available. If
tp
is non-
NULL
, return value is also assigned to
*tp
.
double difftime(time_t time2, time_t time1);
time2
and
time1
.
time_t mktime(struct tm* tp);
*tp
to fall withing normal ranges. Returns the corresponding calendar time, or
-1
if it cannot be represented.
char* asctime(const struct tm* tp);
Sun Jan 3 13:08:42 1988\n\0
char* ctime(const time_t* tp);
tp
converted to local time. Equivalent to:
asctime(localtime(tp))
struct tm* gmtime(const time_t* tp);
*tp
converted to Coordinated Universal Time, or
NULL
if not available.
struct tm* localtime(const time_t* tp);
*tp
converted into local time.
size_t strftime(char* s, size_t smax, const char* fmt, const struct tm* tp);
*tp
into
s
according to
fmt
. Places no more than
smax
characters into
s
, and returns number of characters produced (excluding terminating
NUL
), or
0
if greater than
smax
. Formatting conversions (
%c
) are:
A
a
B
b
c
d
01
-
31
]
H
00
-
23
]
I
01
-
12
]
j
001
-
366
]
M
00
-
59
]
m
01
-
12
]
p
AM
" or "
PM
"
S
00
-
61
]
U
00
-
53
]
W
00
-
53
]
w
0
) [
0
-
6
]
X
x
Y
y
00
-
99
]
Z
%
%
Local time may differ from calendar time because of time zone.
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