Re: Irreproducible results

From	Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Irreproducible results
Date	2021-12-25 21:57 -0300
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gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) writes:

> In article <sq0gdk$lnu$1@dont-email.me>,
> Andrey Tarasevich  <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com> wrote:
> ...
>>Yes, it should be.
>>
>>The first result you quoted makes no sense. The only possible 
>>explanation is that you are most certainly making something up.
>
> Someday, someone is going to post the following C program:
>
> int main(void) { printf("2+2 = %d\n",2+2); }
>
> and state that the output he gets from compiling and running this program is:
>
> 2+2 = 5
>
> And then we are all going to spend much time and many responses trying both to
> figure out how he got that result -- and explaining to him that that result is
> impossible and must be due to a cut-and-paste error.

Yes.  But this is what happens to the novice.  If the person has very
little experience with arithmetic --- if that were possible ---,
something literally as you describe could happen.  If I had a clue about
what I was looking at, I would have realized that I must have been
confused --- and would be much more careful in posting something like
that.  But, yes, I wouldn't blame you for getting annoyed, say.

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isn't an array a contiguous region of memory? Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-12-21 16:41 -0300
  Re: isn't an array a contiguous region of memory? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-12-21 20:10 +0000
    Re: isn't an array a contiguous region of memory? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-12-21 20:13 +0000
  Re: isn't an array a contiguous region of memory? Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2021-12-21 20:19 +0000
    Re: isn't an array a contiguous region of memory? Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-12-21 21:43 -0300
  Re: isn't an array a contiguous region of memory? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-12-21 12:22 -0800
    Re: isn't an array a contiguous region of memory? Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-12-21 21:48 -0300
  Re: isn't an array a contiguous region of memory? Andrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com> - 2021-12-22 16:38 -0800
    Irreproducible results (Was: isn't an array a contiguous region of memory?) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2021-12-23 12:46 +0000
      Re: Irreproducible results Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-12-25 21:57 -0300

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