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. > > -- > Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. > happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 > Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 > individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? > steveo at syslang.net > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
