《GLIB C MANUAL》–1.1.入門

1.1. Getting Started
1.1. 入門
 
This manual is written with the assumption that you are at least somewhat familiar with the C programming language and basic programming concepts. Specifically, familiarity with ISO standard C (see ISO C), rather than “traditional” pre-ISO C dialects, is assumed.
在編寫本手冊的時候假設你至少有點熟悉C變成語言和基本的編程概念，特別是熟悉ISO標準C（參見：1.2.1 ISO C）,而不是傳統的pre-ISO C方言。

The GNU C Library includes several header files, each of which provides definitions and declarations for a group of related facilities; this information is used by the C compiler when processing your program. For example, the header file stdio.h declares facilities
for performing input and output, and the header file string.h declares string processing utilities. The organization of this manual generally follows the same division as the header files.
GNU C庫包含了很多標頭檔，每個檔案提供了一組相關功能的定義和說明；C編譯器在處理你的程式時會使用這些資訊。例如：stdio.h標頭檔說明了進行輸入和輸出功能，string.h標頭檔說明了字串處理功能。本手冊一般是根據標頭檔分工進行組織的。

If you are reading this manual for the first time, you should read all of the introductory material and skim the remaining chapters. There are a lot of functions in the GNU C Library and it's not realistic to expect that you will be able to remember exactly
how to use each and every one of them. It's more important to become generally familiar with the kinds of facilities that the library provides, so that when you are writing your programs you can recognize when to make use of library functions, and where in
this manual you can find more specific information about them.
如果你是第一次閱讀本手冊，你應該閱讀所有的介紹材料和瀏覽其餘章節。GNU庫中有很功能，以至於你準確記住所有這些功能的使用是不現實的。更重要的是你普遍地熟悉庫提供的功能種類，所以，當你在寫程式時，你能夠認識什麼時候去使用這些庫功能，從手冊的哪裡能找到這些功能的詳細資料。