C Interfaces and Implementations

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C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series, 1997, ISBN 0201498413, ISBN-13 9780201498417) advocates a design methodology based on interfaces and their implementations, and it illustrates this methodology by describing 24 interfaces and their implementations in detail. These interfaces include data structures, arithmetic, string processing, and concurrent programming.

• A sample chapter in HTML, PDF (~42K).
• Installation instructions.
• History of changes to the source code.
• Distribution source code.
• Quick Reference guide (PDF ~152K). This guide is formatted as 6.4" by 4.8" pages suitable for online viewing with the Acrobat reader, and it includes bookmarks for fast access.
• Table of Contents (includes links to individual source code files).
• Preface.
• Errata for the third, second and first printings.