《GLIB C MANUAL》--1.1.入门

1.1. Getting Started
1.1. 入门
 
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.
在编写本手册的时候假设你至少有点熟悉C变成语言和基本的编程概念，特别是熟悉ISO标准C（参见：1.2.1 ISO C）,而不是传统的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库包含了很多头文件，每个文件提供了一组相关功能的定义和说明；C编译器在处理你的程序时会使用这些信息。例如：stdio.h头文件说明了进行输入和输出功能，string.h头文件说明了字符串处理功能。本手册一般是根据头文件分工进行组织的。

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.
如果你是第一次阅读本手册，你应该阅读所有的介绍材料和浏览其余章节。GNU库中有很功能，以至于你准确记住所有这些功能的使用是不现实的。更重要的是你普遍地熟悉库提供的功能种类，所以，当你在写程序时，你能够认识什么时候去使用这些库功能，从手册的哪里能找到这些功能的详细信息。