Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: AVL tree insertion - programming exercise Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:34:39 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: <86ld7ro0r4.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <86ece2kppv.fsf@linuxsc.com> <86v775h9o2.fsf@linuxsc.com> <11am74c$54g$1@reader2.panix.com> <11amvh2$14pou$3@kst.eternal-september.org> <11ao2mr$4l9$1@reader2.panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:34:40 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="3987493"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/CRZefiolVccrE6Hih2igOTUV9ImGcLLs="; posting-host="dcce9549cab60c9dc2e15c40a16373a5" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iMLvUcOzEmqWscVYxOaMjHDl6Hk= sha1:TSqSGIYwPI1xLVkBKm+0jg93W60= sha256:u5gLLab0v/7DCrjmlZQ3S45ySc4eQDsRqB9cmZ8ORe4= sha1:fIGZRp8hnW8rqVrhgKHpq4JnQL0= sha256:7h6DatctM5mhyLE5jDMRY41X+glKuIoRHEgC5Z9LJa8= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:403404 cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes: > In article <11amvh2$14pou$3@kst.eternal-september.org>, > Keith Thompson wrote: > >> cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes: >> >>> In article <86v775h9o2.fsf@linuxsc.com>, >>> Tim Rentsch wrote: >>> >>>> cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes: >> >> [...] >> >>>>> I don't think this is true anymore, as of C23. Here's the >>>>> relevant text from n3220, sec 7.24.3, describing the return >>>>> value from `malloc` et al: >>>>> >>>>> |The pointer returned if the allocation succeeds is suitably >>>>> |aligned so that it may be assigned to a pointer to any type of >>>>> |object with a fundamental alignment requirement and size less >>>>> |than or equal to the size requested. >>>>> >>>>> This sentence is somewhat ambiguous because it's unclear whether >>>>> the "less than or equal to the size requested" criteria applies >>>>> to both the pointer type's size _and_ fundamental alignment >>>>> requirement, or _just_ the size, [...] >>>> >>>> It's poorly constructed but in English it has only one >>>> grammatical parse. >>> >>> Nope. Not even close. >> >> I think Tim is right about there being only one grammatical parse. > > No, he is not. There are over a thousand ways to parse that > sentence "grammatically", [...] If I've told you once I've told you ULLONG_MAX times - don't exaggerate.