Nobody is perfect. Here are some mistakes we found in Effective C.
Chapter 2
On p. 29 paragraph below Listing 2-10:
“At (1), we assign the pointer to sigline_p to the address of the sigline object.”
This is incorrect. sigline_p is the pointer. Corrected as follows:
“At (1), we assign the address of the sigline object to the sigline_p pointer.”
Chapter 3
Table 3-4: 8-Bit Two’s-Complement Values. There is a typographical error on the second row referring to the weighting of 0. The weighting is shown as “20” instead of as “2^0”.
Chapter 4
Page 79, the second line of the code in the middle of the page should be:int *arrp1 = &arr[40];
So the following example:
int arr[100];int *arrp1 = arr[40];int *arrp2 = arrp1 + 20; // arrp2 points to arr[60]
printf("%td\n", arrp2-arrp1); // prints 20
should be
int arr[100];
int *arrp1 = &arr[40];
int *arrp2 = arrp1 + 20; // arrp2 points to arr[60]
printf("%td\n", arrp2-arrp1); // prints 20
Chapter 5
Page 97, exercise 2 is already done. The code snippet “Listing 5-13” already does what the exercise asks you to do.
On page 97, last sentence, “In the next chapter, you’ll learn about characters and strings.” should be “…dynamically allocated memory.”
Chapter 7
Page 135, first paragraph where read:
“These function names are similar to the narrow
string function names, except that str is replaced with wc”
It should read “wcs” instead of “wc”.
Chapter 8
Page 165, Section title “Reading to and Writing from Binary Streams”
should read “Reading from” and “Writing to”
