List of Tables

Chapter 4: The GNU Compiler Toolchain

Table 4.1: Compilation Stages with Inputs and Outputs

Table 4.2: Warning Options Enabled in -Wall

Table 4.3: Other Useful Warning Options Not Enabled in -Wall

Table 4.4: Optimization Settings and Descriptions

Table 4.5: Optimizations Available in -O1

Table 4.6: Optimizations Available in -O2

Table 4.7: Optimizations Enabled in -O3 (Above -O2)

Table 4.8: Architectures (CPUs) Supported for x86

Chapter 6: Building and Using Libraries

Table 6.1: Important Options for the ar Utility

Chapter 7: Coverage Testing with GNU gcov

Table 7.1: gcov Utility Options

Chapter 10: File Handling in GNU/Linux

Table 10.1: Simple File Access Modes

Table 10.2: Function fseek/ lseek whence Arguments

Table 10.3: Additional Flags for the open Function

Table 10.4: Mode Arguments for the open System Call

Chapter 11: Programming with Pipes

Table 11.1: API Functions for Pipe Programming

Chapter 12: Introduction to Sockets Programming

Table 12.1: Sockets Programming Element Hierarchy

Chapter 13: GNU/Linux Process Model

Table 13.1: Traditional Process and Related APIs

Table 13.2: Macro Functions to Evaluate wait Status

Table 13.3: Pid Arguments for waitpid

Table 13.4: Extended Macro Functions for waitpid

Table 13.5: GNU/Linux Signals That Default to Terminate

Table 13.6: GNU/Linux Signals That Default to Ignore

Table 13.7: GNU/Linux Signals That Default to Stop

Table 13.8: GNU/Linux Signals That Default to Core Dump

Table 13.9: Values of pid Argument for kill Function

Chapter 14: POSIX Threads (Pthreads) Programming

Table 14.1: Mutex Initializers

Chapter 15: IPC with Message Queues

Table 15.1: Message Queue API Functions and Uses

Table 15.2: Message Queue Permissions for the msgget msgflag Argument

Table 15.3: Message Queue Configuration and Defaults in msgget

Table 15.4: Message Queue Parameters That May Be Updated

Table 15.5: Structure Updates after Successful msgsnd Completion

Table 15.6: msgtyp Arguments for msgrcv

Table 15.7: msgflg Arguments for msgrcv

Table 15.8: Structure Updates after Successful msgsnd Completion

Chapter 16: Synchronization with Semaphores

Table 16.1: Semaphore API Functions and Their Uses

Table 16.2: Semaphore Permissions for the semget semflg Argument

Table 16.3: Semaphore Internal Values

Table 16.4: Operations That Can Be Performed Using semctl

Table 16.5: Semaphore Flag Options ( sembuf.sem_flg )

Chapter 17: Shared Memory Programming

Table 17.1: Shared Memory API Functions and Uses

Table 17.2: Shared Memory Segment Permissions for shmget msgflag Argument

Table 17.3: Shared Memory Data Structure init on Creation

Table 17.4:  Shared Memory Data Structure Writeable Elements

Chapter 18: Other Application Development Topics

Table 18.1: Elements and Meaning for struct sysinfo

Table 18.2: Nonstandard Flags for mmap

Chapter 19: GNU/Linux Commands

Table 19.1: File Descriptors for Standard I/O Descriptors

Table 19.2: Range Specs for the cut Utility

Table 19.3: Type Modifiers Available to find ( -type )

Chapter 20: Bourne-Again Shell (bash)

Table 20.1: Useful Environment Variables

Table 20.2: Integer Comparison Operators

Table 20.3: String Comparison Operators

Table 20.4: File Test Operators

Table 20.5: Special Sequences in Echoed Strings

Table 20.6: Other Options for the read Command

Chapter 22: Text Processing with awk

Table 22.1: Awks Built-in Variables

Chapter 23: Parser Generation with flex and bison

Table 23.1: Useful Scanner and Parser Functions and Variables

Chapter 24: Software Unit Testing Frameworks

Table 24.1: Test Functions Provided By Embunit

Chapter 25: Debugging with GDB

Table 25.1: Available Methods for Setting Breakpoints

Table 25.2: Methods for Stepping Through the Source

Chapter 26: Code Hardening

Table 26.1: Safe Replacements for C Library Functions