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Compaq C

# Compaq C
Language Reference Manual

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Contents (summary)
Preface | Preface
Chapter 1 | Lexicon
Chapter 2 | Basic Concepts
Chapter 3 | Data Types
Chapter 4 | Declarations
Chapter 5 | Functions
Chapter 6 | Expressions and Operators
Chapter 7 | Statements
Chapter 8 | Preprocessor Directives and Predefined Macros
Chapter 9 | The ANSI C Standard Library
Appendix A | Language Syntax Summary
Appendix B | ANSI Conformance Summary
Appendix C | ASCII Equivalence Table
Appendix D | Common C Extensions Supported by Compaq C
Appendix E | VAX C Extensions Supported by Compaq C
| Index
| Figures
| Examples
| Tables

## Contents

Preface
Preface | Preface
Chapter 1
1 | Lexicon
1.1 | Character Set
1.1.1 | Trigraph Sequences
1.1.2 | Digraph Sequences
1.2 | Identifiers
1.3 | Comments
1.4 | Keywords
1.5 | Operators
1.6 | Punctuators
1.7 | String Literals
1.8 | Constants
1.8.1 | Integer Constants
1.8.2 | Floating-Point Constants
1.8.2.1 | Semantics
1.8.2.2 | Floating-Point Type
1.8.2.3 | Hexadecimal Floating-Point Constants
1.8.2.4 | Examples
1.8.3 | Character Constants
1.8.3.1 | Wide Characters
1.8.3.2 | Multibyte Characters
1.8.3.3 | Character Escape Sequences
1.8.3.4 | Numeric Escape Sequences
1.8.4 | Enumeration Constants
1.9 | Header Files
1.10 | Limits
1.10.1 | Translation Limits
1.10.2 | Numerical Limits
1.10.3 | Character Display
Chapter 2
2 | Basic Concepts
2.1 | Blocks
2.2 | Compilation Units
2.3 | Scope
2.3.1 | File Scope
2.3.2 | Block Scope
2.3.3 | Function Scope
2.3.4 | Function Prototype Scope
2.4 | Visibility
2.5 | Side Effects and Sequence Points
2.6 | Incomplete Type
2.7 | Compatible and Composite Types
2.8 | Linkage
2.9 | Tentative Definitions
2.10 | Storage Classes
2.10.1 | The auto Class
2.10.2 | The register Class
2.10.3 | The static Class
2.10.4 | The extern Class
2.11 | Storage-Class Modifiers
2.11.1 | The __inline Modifier
2.11.2 | The inline Modifier
2.11.2.1 | Example---Using the inline Function Specifier
2.11.3 | The __forceinline Modifier
2.11.4 | The __align Modifier
2.12 | Forward References
2.13 | Tags
2.14 | lvalues and rvalues
2.15 | Name Spaces
2.16 | Preprocessing
2.17 | Type Names
Chapter 3
3 | Data Types
3.1 | Data Sizes
3.2 | Integral Types
3.2.1 | Non-Character Types
3.2.2 | Character Types
3.3 | Floating-Point Types
3.4 | Derived Types
3.4.1 | Function Type
3.4.2 | Pointer Type
3.4.3 | Array Type
3.4.4 | Structure Type
3.4.5 | Union Type
3.5 | void Type
3.6 | Enumerated Types
3.7 | Type Qualifiers
3.7.1 | const Type Qualifier
3.7.2 | volatile Type Qualifier
3.7.3 | __unaligned Type Qualifier
3.7.4 | __restrict Type Qualifier
3.7.4.1 | Rationale
3.7.4.1.1 | Aliasing
3.7.4.1.2 | Library Examples
3.7.4.1.3 | Overlapping Objects
3.7.4.1.4 | Restricted Pointer Prototype for memcpy
3.7.4.2 | Formal Definition of the __restrict Type Qualifier
3.7.4.3 | Examples
3.7.4.3.1 | File Scope Restricted Pointers
3.7.4.3.2 | Function Parameters
3.7.4.3.3 | Block Scope
3.7.4.3.4 | Members of Structures
3.7.4.3.5 | Type Definitions
3.7.4.3.6 | Expressions Based on Restricted Pointers
3.7.4.3.7 | Assignments between Restricted Pointers
3.7.4.3.8 | Assignments to Unrestricted Pointers
3.7.4.3.9 | Ineffective Uses of Type Qualifiers
3.7.4.3.10 | Constraint Violations
3.8 | Type Definition

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