Language REFERENCE book recommendations?

What REFERENCE book do you use / recommend?

Mainly, I’m looking for a book that has ALL of the functions in the ANSI header files. I’m looking for something like the help files for MSVC++, but in printed form with a good cross-referenced index. (The help files are fine if you know exactly what you’re looking for.)

The two “best” reference books I have are:

Josuttis “The C++ Standard Library”
Not a bad book, good depth in some topics and well written. But it’s hard to find what you’re looking for. And it may be incomplete too. For example, I couldn’t find strtoul() in the index. Microsoft help says strtoul() is in ANSI stdlib.h

Stroustrup “The C++ Programming Language”
This book seems to be written for programmers with BSCS degrees who already know C. When I look something-up it takes me a half-hour to figure-out what he’s saying… That is, if I ever “get it”. I couldn’t find strtoul() in his index either! It IS cool to own a book by the creator of C++! :)

Yesterday, I ordered from Amazon:
Ira Pohl “C++ Distilled”
(I should have posted this first.)

I don’t have Stroustrup’s other book “The Annotated C++ Reference Manual”. Any comments on this book?

>>is in ANSI stdlib.h

::thinking:: I think that stdlib is purely ANSI-C, not C++. Correct me if I'm wrong (as I probably am; I'm more of a C man myself).

>>For example, I couldn’t find strtoul() in the index.
That's because it only covers the standard template library.

>>Microsoft help says strtoul() is in ANSI stdlib.h
For C, yea, for C++ it's in cstdlib.

>> I couldn’t find strtoul() in his index either!
You're obsessed with strtoul. :rolleyes: Get the C standard library, that one gives you more detail than you could ever want on the C based library functions, it's written by Plauger. The C++ versions of C's libraries work exactly the same. For C++ libraries Stroustrup's book should be enough.

>>I don’t have Stroustrup’s other book “The Annotated C++ Reference Manual”. Any comments on this book?
Out of date.

try to look in this site. Probably has something of what your looking for. just go under languages or something
http://www.maththinking.com/boat/computerbooks.html

Thanks for shairing

Thanks for not reading the rules when you joined, and bumping an 8 year old thread.