OT: Programming in C

[Les]

Yup, Been there, Done that, didn't even want the Tee shirt.

Regards,
Les H
On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 15:09 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Saturday, Apr 19th 2008 at 14:42 -0000, quoth Bill Davidsen:
> 
> =>Steven W. Orr wrote:
> =>
> =>> Quiz for next Friday. What are these and what's the difference between them:
> =>> 
> =>> int     (*(**p)[])(int)
> =>declare p as pointer to pointer to array of pointer to function (int)
> =>returning int
> =>
> =>> and
> =>> int     *(*(**p)[])(int)
> =>declare p as pointer to pointer to array of pointer to function (int)
> =>returning pointer to int
> 
> Both correct. You get to stay after class and clap out the erasers. :-)
> 
> =>I would really want to see both a justification of method and 
> =>certificate of sanity to someone who actually used either. I can just 
> =>barely justify pointer to array of function returning int (state 
> =>machines), these look like something a compiler compiler would do.
> 
> It does get a bit quazee, but the point of the discussion was not to find 
> something wacko and then to justify it. The point was that there are too 
> many people programming in C/C++ who don't know how to do it and who 
> either get it wrong or don't implement what was needed in the first 
> place. (And it really isn't that hard to learn.)
> 
> I can't tell you how many times I go into a place and see that compiler 
> warnings are never fixed, thus causing these types of incorrect uses to 
> somehow still work (maybe most of the time too!). I can't tell you how 
> many times I go into a place and see include files with static 
> declarations because they didn't know how else to initialize global data, 
> and never even realizing that the data was occupying hundreds or thousands 
> of times more space than they intended.
> 
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