@dircategory GNU libraries @direntry * Libc: (libc). C library.
@shorttitlepage The GNU C Library Reference Manual The GNU C Library
Reference Manual
Sandra Loosemore with Richard M. Stallman, Roland McGrath, Andrew Oram, and Ulrich Drepper
Edition 0.07 DRAFT
last updated 4 Oct 1996
for version 2.00 Beta Copyright (C) 1993, '94, '95, '96, '97 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Published by the Free Software Foundation
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ISBN 1-882114-53-1
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The C language provides no built-in facilities for performing such common operations as input/output, memory management, string manipulation, and the like. Instead, these facilities are defined in a standard library, which you compile and link with your programs.
The GNU C library, described in this document, defines all of the library functions that are specified by the ISO C standard, as well as additional features specific to POSIX and other derivatives of the Unix operating system, and extensions specific to the GNU system.
The purpose of this manual is to tell you how to use the facilities of the GNU library. We have mentioned which features belong to which standards to help you identify things that are potentially nonportable to other systems. But the emphasis in this manual is not on strict portability.
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