In article <xx*************@usrts005.corpusers.net>,
Randy Yates <ra*********@sonyericsson.com> wrote:
Does there exist an API for C that one can search in like the API for Java?
Since C is not an "application," it does not have an "API."
That's not quite the right objection: an API is an interface provided
*for* applications, not by or to one, so the fact that C is not an
application is not the reason why the question is badly phrased.
Do you mean
to ask if there is some type of documentation on the C standard libraries?
I agree that the right term is "library" - "API" implies an underlying
thing to which an interface is provided, which is not true of the
standard C library (though some parts of it such as stdio could be
considered an API to the operating system). I'm not sure whether
Java's use of the term reflects an unreasoning love of acronyms, or
something more subtle: an attempt to make the Java "platform" be a
thing apart from the language, like an operating system, and thus a
competitor to Microsoft's operating systems.
I imagine the OP wants something like the form based Java documentation
(e.g.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/index.html). I don't know
of such a thing for C.
-- Richard