Mastering declarations in C - Part 1
This blog post is adapted from Expert C Programming - Deep C Secrets by Peter
Van Der Linden
If you've written C programs before you're already familiar with declarations
(probably,
c++
Playing With Bits in C
Let's say you have been tasked with rewriting the file API of C and so far you
are nailing it! You've created a struct named file that contains all
What Exactly does ++a + ++a do in C?
This question was (and still is) one of the most favourite question of our
professors -
int a = 5;
int b = ++a + ++a;
/* What will be the value of a? */
And its variants -
int
C++ is Not a Superset of C
You might have heard this phrase by your professors a lot - "C++ is a superset
of C. Anything that works in C, works in C++." If you are in India, probably
Understanding C++ Casts
C++, being a strongly typed language, is strict with its types. And there are
always cases when you need to convert one type into another, which is known as
casting. Sometimes, the casting
