The GNU C Library Reference Manual Version 2.26

You can get a free PDF version of this 1156 page document at . This document is printed in grayscale.The C language provides no built-in facilities for performing such common operations as input/output memory management string manipulation and the like. Instead these facilities are defined in a standard library which you compile and link with your programs.The GNU C Library described in this document defines all of the library functions that are specified by the ISO C standard as well as additional features specific to POSIX and other derivatives of the Unix operating system and extensions specific to GNU systems.The purpose of this manual is to explain how to use the facilities of the GNU C Library. We have mentioned which features belong to which standards to help you identify things that are potentially non-portable to other systems. But the emphasis in this manual is not on strict portability.