C / C++

C

References

• Manual pages manpages-dev, manpages-posix-dev

sudo apt-get install manpages-dev manpages-posix-dev

C++

References

• The C Library Reference Guide

Reference for standard C

• C++ Reference from www.cplusplus.com
  • Also contains description of C Language Library
  • ... and of IOStream Library

# Use ***HTTrack*** to make a local copy of the website - use option -P http://proxy:port if needed
httrack http://www.cplusplus.com/ -W -O /var/www -%v "-www.cplusplus.com/forum/*" "-www.cplusplus.com/src/*" "-www.cplusplus.com/member/*"

• Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide from SGI
• manual pages stl-manual (from SGI actually!)

sudo apt-get install stl-manual
ln -s /usr/share/doc/stl-manual/html /var/www/sgi        # Now the manual is available at http://localhost/sgi

<iostream.h> or <iostream>

• <iostream> is the standard compliant library. <iostream.h> is deprecated since many many years.
• <iostream> contains a set of templatized I/O classes which support both narrow and wide characters (by contrast, <iostream.h> classes are confined to char exclusively).
• Third, the C++ standard specification of iostream's interface was changed in many subtle aspects. Consequently, the interfaces and implementation of <iostream> differ from <iostream.h>.
• Finally, <iostream> components are declared in namespace std whereas <iostream.h> components are declared in the global scope.

Note that both libraries cannot be mixed in one program.