Now consider the functional programming notion of functions that return functions. This is less commonly encountered than functions as arguments. Listing 5 has an example from a common React ...

An example of a function in a program is a sum function. Here’s a simple implementation: define a function named sum that takes two arguments. Call it using variables a and b: int a = 5; int b ...

Example 8.10: Quadratic Programming. The quadratic program can be solved by solving an equivalent linear complementarity problem when H is positive semidefinite. The approach is outlined in the ...

The nblock() function reports how many disk blocks the file uses. This calculation is based on the file's size as returned by stat(). The V7 block size was 512 bytes--the size of a physical disk ...

This article is excerpted from Chapter 7 of my book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, published by Prentice Hall (ISBN: 0-13-142964-7).Chapters 1 through 6 cover the standard APIs for ...