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

NAME

       intro - Introduction to library functions

DESCRIPTION

       This  chapter  describes all library functions excluding the library functions described in chapter 2, which implement system calls.  There
       are various function groups which can be identified by a letter which is appended to the chapter number:

       (3C)   These functions, the functions from chapter 2 and from chapter 3S are contained in the C standard library libc, which will  be  used
	      by cc(1) by default.

       (3S)   These functions are parts of the stdio(3) library.  They are contained in the standard C library libc.

       (3M)   These  functions	are contained in the arithmetic library libm.  They are used by the f77(1) FORTRAN compiler by default, but not by
	      the cc(1) C compiler, which needs the option -lm.

       (3F)   These functions are part of the FORTRAN library libF77.  There are no special compiler flags needed to use these functions.

       (3X)   Various special libraries.  The manual pages documenting their functions specify the library names.

AUTHORS

       Look at the header of the manual page for the author(s) and copyright conditions.  Note that these can be different from page to page!

Linux								    1995-12-13								  INTRO(3)

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
       link against the required library (e.g., -lm and -lrt, respectively, for the aforementioned libraries).

       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-
       fied  in the man page SYNOPSIS section.	(Where required, these feature test macros must be defined before including any header files.)	In
       such cases, the required macro is described in the man page.  For further information on feature test macros, see feature_test_macros(7).

CONFORMING TO

       Certain terms and abbreviations are used to indicate UNIX variants and standards to which calls in this section conform.  See standards(7).

NOTES

   Authors and Copyright Conditions
       Look at the header of the manual page source for the author(s) and copyright conditions.  Note that these can be  different  from  page	to
       page!

SEE ALSO

       intro(2),  errno(3),  capabilities(7),  credentials(7),	environ(7),  feature_test_macros(7),  libc(7),	math_error(7), path_resolution(7),
       pthreads(7), signal(7), standards(7)

COLOPHON

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       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux								    2010-11-11								  INTRO(3)