Errata for Learn C on the Macintosh Mac OS X Edition By Dave Mark Back to the Main Book Page...

eBook: Page 14

After the publication of this book, Apple changed the filename of the Xcode installer. All references to "Developer.mpkg" should now be "XcodeTools.mpkg" instead.

eBook: Page 22

In the last paragraph in the left column, the accidental reference to "CodeWarrior" should be "Xcode" instead.

eBook: Page 37

In the section "Running hello2," the phrase "Select Build and Run from the Project menu" should read "Select Build and Run from the Build menu."

eBook: Page 50

In the 3rd paragraph in the left column, the words "unsigned" and "signed" should be switched so that the sentence reads: "Wow! A signed 4 byte int can hold values ranging from -2,?47,483,648 to 2,?47,483,647, while an unsigned 4 byte int can hold values from 0 to 4,294,967,295."

eBook: Page 56

In the right column, the following block of text:

What about this line of code:
   myInt = 27 % 6 * 5;
In this case, the * will get evaluated before the %, as if the line of code were written:
   myInt = 27 % (6 * 5);

should read as follows:

What about this line of code:
   myInt = 27 % 6 * 5;
In this case, the % will get evaluated before the *, as if the line of code were written:
   myInt = (27 % 6) * 5;

eBook: Page 79

The last 3 rows in Figure 6.1's Comparative Operators are incorrect. Those last 3 rows should read:

eBook: Page 99

In the last paragraph in the left column, "check back to Figure 6.4" should read "check back to Figure 6.5."

eBook: Page 174

The last paragraph in the blue box (in the left column) should read:

Now, when countWords gets launched, argc will have a value of 2 and argv will contain two array elements. argv[0] is a pointer to a char array containing the string "xxx/countWords" (where xxx is the path to the application) and argv[1] is a pointer to a char array containing the string "myFile.txt". Just thought you might be wondering!

eBook: Page 175

The following line in Exercise 1b:

printf( "The value of myFloat is %d.\n", f );

should read:

printf( "The value of myFloat is %d.\n", myFloat );

eBook: Page 191

In the 2nd paragraph of the blue box (in the right column), the sentence "The three fields total to 103 bytes" should read "The three fields total to 513 bytes."

eBook: Page 204

The code listing at the bottom of the left column should have a +1 added to the 4th and 5th lines, so that the code should read:

struct CDInfo
{
 char rating;
 char artist[ kMaxArtistLength + 1 ];
 char title[ kMaxTitleLength + 1 ];
 struct CDInfo *next;

eBook: Page 235

At the top of the right column, the last 3 column headers in the title bar of Figure 10.3 should include a trailing plus sign and should read:

eBook: Page 239

In the middle fo the left column, the following 2 lines of code:

result = fgets( line, kMaxLineLength, stdin );
line[ strlen( line ) - 1 ] = '\0';

should read as follows:

result = fgets( line, kMaxLineLength, stdin );
if ( strlen( line ) <= 1 )
      return false;
line[ strlen( line ) - 1 ] = '\0';

eBook: Pages 251-252

On these 2 pages, all 7 occurrences of "myUnion" should be "myNumber" instead.

eBook: Page 254

In the 2nd sentence in the right column, "step through each of the even integers" should read "step through each of the odd integers."

eBook: Page 261

At the top of the left column, the phrase "The tree would have no left children" should read "The root would have no left children."

eBook: Page 270

In the blue box in the left column, the 2nd line of code:

value - (value < 0) ? (-value) : (value);

should read as follows:

value = (value < 0) ? (-value) : (value);

 
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