Improve your programming through a solid understanding of C pointers and memory management. With this practical book, you'll learn how pointers provide the mechanism to dynamically manipulate memory, enhance support for data structures, and enable access to hardware. Author Richard Reese shows you how to use pointers with arrays, strings, structures, and functions, using memory models throughout the book. Difficult to master, pointers provide C with much flexibility and power - yet few resources are dedicated to this data type. This comprehensive book has the information you need, whether you're a beginner or an experienced C or C++ programmer or developer. Get an introduction to pointers, including the declaration of different pointer types Learn about dynamic memory allocation, de-allocation, and alternative memory management techniques Use techniques for passing or returning data to and from functions Understand the fundamental aspects of arrays as they relate to pointers Explore the basics of strings and how pointers are used to support them Examine why pointers can be the source of security problems, such as buffer overflow Learn several pointer techniques, such as the use of opaque pointers, bounded pointers and, the restrict keyword

作者简介 ：

Richard Reese

华盛顿州塔尔顿州立大学副教授。Reese自2002年起就在塔尔顿州立大学教授计算机科学课程，此前在洛克希德•马丁公司做过十年的软件开发。Reese著有多本技术图书，包括Oracle Certified Associate，Java SE 7 Programmer Study Guide，Java 7 New Features Cookbook，EJB 3.1 CookBook等。

译者简介：

陈晓亮

美团网iOS工程师，长期关注Linux、iOS、C、Objective-C，推崇C语言，认为程序员的C功底会直接影响Objective-C代码质量。他重视用户体验，喜欢干净的代码，业余时间喜欢读书，经常与大家探讨技术问题，译有《iOS6编程实战》。