Naveen Toppo - Pointers in C: A Hands on Approach

Pointers in C

A Hands on Approach

Naveen Toppo

Hrishikesh Dewan

Pointers in C: A Hands on Approach

Copyright 2013 by Naveen Toppo, Hrishikesh Dewan

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To my beloved parents Clement and Xaveria and my dear wife Rashmi

Naveen Toppo

In memory of my best friend Neon

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Contents at a Glance

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About the Authors

Naveen Toppo is currently working as a consultant at the CT DC TEC Division of Siemens Technology and Services Pvt. Ltd India. With a total of over 7 years of experience, his current focus area is in optimum utilization of hardware features (performance engineering).

He is also involved in the research of distributed algorithms used for spatial databases. Prior to joining Siemens, he was technical lead for embedded systems at Wipro Technologies, where he was working on a project on SoC network processors, dealing with L3 layers routing algorithms.

In his prior roles, he was associated with projects on Intel tablets based on Android platform, development of T9 dictionary support, and parsing and lexical analysis. He has a masters degree in technology in computer sciences from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.

Hrishikesh Dewan has worked as lead engineer for Siemens Technology and Services(STS), INDIA since June, 2008. He is also a PhD scholar at the Department of Computer Science and Automation, IISC, Bangalore pursuing research in the areas of large scale distributed storage systems. In STS, he leads the distributed systems laboratory. Prior to joining STS, he founded a very small open source software development organization named Srishti that promoted open source tools and software for schools and colleges. He also worked as a project manager for 2 years at Eth Ltd., a subsidiary and R&D unit of Dishnet Wireless Ltd (Aircel). He is the author of two other books on WCF-SOAP and Visual Studio technologies.