Further reading

Language reference

WG14 N1570, C11 committee draft is a detailed language and standard-library reference, not an introductory tutorial. Relevant areas include array and pointer expressions, object lifetime, allocated storage and stream I/O.

Probabilistic search structures

OpenDSA: Skip Lists explains why skip-list performance is probabilistic and how it differs from balanced-tree guarantees.

Before adopting code

The supplied programs are small teaching demonstrations. Review their contracts, input-size limits and missing operations in the laboratory README. Test outcomes do not substitute for a production security or reliability review.