C Standard Library header files

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The interface of C standard library is defined by the following collection of headers.

<assert.h> Conditionally compiled macro that compares its argument to zero
<complex.h> (C99) Complex number arithmetic
<ctype.h> Functions to determine the type contained in character data
<errno.h> Macros reporting error conditions
<fenv.h> (C99) Floating-point environment
<float.h> Limits of floating-piont types
<inttypes.h> (C99) Format conversion of integer types
<iso646.h> (C95) Alternative operator spellings
<limits.h> Sizes of basic types
<locale.h> Localization utilities
<math.h> Common mathematics functions
<setjmp.h> Nonlocal jumps
<signal.h> Signal handling
<stdalign.h> (C11) alignas and alignof convenience macros
<stdarg.h> Variable arguments
<stdatomic.h> (C11) Atomic operations
<stdbool.h> (C99) Macros for boolean type
<stddef.h> Common macro definitions
<stdint.h> (C99) Fixed-width integer types
<stdio.h> Input/output
<stdlib.h> General utilities: memory management, program utilities, string conversions, random numbers, algorithms
<stdnoreturn.h> (C11) noreturn convenience macro
<string.h> String handling
<tgmath.h> (C99) Type-generic math (macros wrapping math.h and complex.h)
<threads.h> (C11) Thread library
<time.h> Time/date utilities
<uchar.h> (C11) UTF-16 and UTF-32 character utilities
<wchar.h> (C95) Extended multibyte and wide character utilities
<wctype.h> (C95) Functions to determine the type contained in wide character data

References

  • C17 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2018):
  • 7.1.2 Standard headers (p: 131-132)
  • C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):
  • 7.1.2 Standard headers (p: 181-182)
  • C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):
  • 7.1.2 Standard headers (p: 165)
  • C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990):
  • 4.1.2 Standard headers

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