Concurrent C
by Narain Gehani & William D. Roome (AT&T Bell Laboratories)
ISBN 0-929306-00-7
1989
310 pages, Paperback
$49.95 (US Dollars)
Author Bios: Gehani, Roome

 Summary    Contents  

... the book is a model of how a new language should be pre- sented and I can strongly recommend it to anyone interested in this area of programming -- B. Heal in ACM Computing Reviews

Concurrent C (Concurrent C++) is the latest development in the evolution of C! Concurrent C is a superset of C (& C++) that provides parallel programming facilities such as those for declaring & creating processes, for process synchronization, interaction, termination, & abortion. Concurrent C, as a compile-time option, also works with C++ thus combining concurrent programming and object-oriented programming facilities. The authors of Concurrent C explain Concurrent C, its run-time facilities, & Concurrent C++; they discuss issues in concurrent programming & compare Concurrent C with Ada tasking. The authors give many real & large examples including Concurrent Make. Book also contains the Concurrent C reference manual.

Chapters:

• Basics
• Advanced Facilities
• Run-time Environment
• Large Examples
• Concurrent C++
• Concurrent Programming Models
• Concurrent Programming Issues
• Discrete Event Simulation
• Appendix A: Concurrent C Reference Manual
• Appendix B: Concurrent C: Design and Implementation
• Appendix C: Comparison with Conc. Programming in Ada
• Appendix D: C: A Synopsis
• Bibliography
• Index