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INTRO(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  INTRO(3)

NAME

       intro - Introduction to library functions

DESCRIPTION

       Section	3  of  the  manual  describes all library functions excluding the library functions (system call wrappers) described in section 2,
       which implement system calls.

       Many of the functions described in the section are part of the Standard C Library (libc).  Some	functions  are	part  of  other  libraries
       (e.g.,  the  math  library,  libm, or the real-time library, librt) in which case the manual page will indicate the linker option needed to
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       In some cases, the programmer must define a feature test macro in order to obtain the declaration of a function from the header file speci-
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