May 1990
Volume 8 Number 5
NUMBER CRUNCHING
Complex Arithmetic And Matrices In C
By Louis Baker
You can easily add complex
arithmetic to your "engineering" code.
A Pseudo-Random Number Generator
By Robert Fruit
Good random number generators
can't be built haphazardly.
The Quick Sort For Micros And Pipeline Processors
By Dr. Timothy Prince
How to "tune" the
classic algorithm for a pipelined machine.
An Adaptive Data Analyzer
By Michael Brannigan
This article extends an earlier
discussion of curve fitting.
FEATURES
Executable Strings
By James A. Kuzdrall
A useful technique, but not one to
write home about.
A Packetized Ring Buffer (Article unavailable in electronic form)
By Martin Stitt
This implementation stores
variable length objects.
Storage In C
By Matt Bishop
A tutorial introduction to storage
classes.
An Applied File I/O Tutorial: The Mini-Database System
By Leor Zolman
This installment develops the data
entry module.
An Adaptable Disk Utility
By Alex Cameron
This "disk format translator"
is self-configuring.
COLUMNS
Standard C
P. J. Plauger
Doctor C's Pointers
Rex Jaeschke
Applying C++ (Article unavailable in electronic form)
Tsvi Bar-David
Questions & Answers
Ken Pugh
Implementer's Notebook (Article unavailable in electronic form)
Don Libes
USER REPORTS
PCX Toolkit
Comments By Bob Barrett
BOOK REPORTS
Three Books On Concurrent Programming
Reviewed By P. J. Plauger