Chapter 2

Complying with standard C

This chapter contains the following transition topics:

• ``Mixing old and new style functions''

• ``Functions with varying arguments''

• ``Promotions: unsigned vs. value preserving''

• ``Tokenization and preprocessing''

• ``Using const and volatile''

• ``Multibyte characters and wide characters''

• ``Standard headers and reserved names''

• ``Internationalization''

• ``Grouping and evaluation in expressions''

• ``Incomplete types''

• ``Compatible and composite types''