C Foundations and Compilation

Describe the stages of C compilation: preprocessing, compilation, assembly, and linking

Write, compile, and run a C program using gcc with warning flags (-Wall, -g)

Explain C's primitive data types, their sizes, and potential portability issues

Use printf and scanf for formatted console I/O

Declare and manipulate fixed-size, single-dimensional arrays

Perform common string operations using C-string functions (strlen, strcpy, strcmp)

Distinguish between character arrays and string literals in memory