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This document provides instructions for 4 exercises in an advanced C programming course. Students are expected to write programs that: 1. Copy the contents of one file to another using standard input/output functions. 2. Mimic the Unix "tail" command functionality to display the last few lines of a file. 3. Read floating point numbers from input, sort them, and display the sorted array. 4. Compute the perimeter and area of a circle by defining functions in separate files and compiling them together into one program.

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PW02

This document provides instructions for 4 exercises in an advanced C programming course. Students are expected to write programs that: 1. Copy the contents of one file to another using standard input/output functions. 2. Mimic the Unix "tail" command functionality to display the last few lines of a file. 3. Read floating point numbers from input, sort them, and display the sorted array. 4. Compute the perimeter and area of a circle by defining functions in separate files and compiling them together into one program.

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UFAZ - Bachelor of Computer Science

System Programming
PW02 : advanced C programming

For each exercice, we expect the student to write a program, compile it


and run it without errors of several examples. Test sets and comments are as
important as the code itself.

Exercice 1
Write a program which copies a file foo into a new file (which you need to
create) bar, using the functions fopen, putc, getc and fclose.

Exercice 2
The Unix command tail displays, by default, the 10 last lines of a text file.
The option -n allows to change this number of lines. Write a program which
performs the same job as tail.
To analyse the arguments, we suggest you use the function getopt. To find
the n last lines of the files, we suggest to read the m last bytes of the file and
to count the number of occurrences of \n starting from the end. If this number
is not sufficient, we start over. When the correct number of \n is found, the
program displays all the characters until the end of the file.

Exercice 3
We aim at writing a program which reads several floating-point numbers, stores
them in an array (we assume there is no more that 100 values), sorts this array
and then displays it on the standard output.

1
We propose to define 3 functions:

1. int read_array (double *a, int max_elem, int *nb_elem) which re-
ceives as argument an array a with at most max_elemqui recoit un tableau
en parametre contenant au plus max_elem elements, lit les valeurs et les
range dans le tableau, puis renvoie le nombre delements lus dans nb_elem.
La valeur de retour de cette fonction doit etre 0 si la lecture sest bien
passee, -1 sinon.
2. void sort_array (double *a, int nb_elem) which sorts the nb_elem
elements of the array a.
3. void display_array (double *a, int nb_elem) which displays the nb_elem
elements of the array a.

Write the code of the functions as well as the main function.

Exercice 4
Write a program to compute the perimeter and the area of a circle from its
radius. The program should be structured in several files : main.c (which
contains the main function), perimeter.c (which contains the perimeter func-
tion), area.c (which contains the area function) and pi.h (which contains an
approximate value of Π.

1. Write all the programs, and provide the smallest compilation line to create
an executable program.
2. Decompose this compilation command to have a single command for each
file, and then a link-editing command. If you change something in the
file area.c, give the minimum commands required to recompile the whole
program. What happens if you modifiy pi.h instead.

3. Write a makefile, which shall automate the compilation process. Add a


new target which removes all intermediate files as well as the final runnable
program.

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