Purpose

Minor spelling and grammatical errors will not be listed here. However, reports of any such errors are greatly appreciated.

Known errors and omissions in first AND second printings

• Page 127, last line:

  "simply to" should read "simply counts to"

• Page 182:

  The sample program must be compiled with the "-lm" option. This tells the linker to search the library libm.a, where it will find the sqrt() function.

  cc sample.c -lm

• Page 213:

  In the example, the word "permutation" is misused. The program actually prints "ordered samples", not permutations.

• Page 332:

  The footnote regarding linked lists should point to section 18.5.2, not 18.1.

• Page 337:

  In both code fragments, the variable listsize should be defined as type size_t.

• Page 493:

  The first statement in main() should read:

      names = read_names(name_list);
      

Known errors and omissions in first printing

• Page 23, near top of page, value should read 19.25, not 21.25.

• Page 35, last paragraph, first sentence should read as follows:

  Codes 00000000 - 00011111 (0-31 decimal) and code 01111111 (127 decimal) are the control characters.

• Page 515, last paragraph, first sentence should read as follows: The read() function attempts to read count bytes from...