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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: solution allocation of memory and composite numbers |
| Date | 2014-12-27 21:55 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87k31cg3kr.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:
> On Friday, December 26, 2014 10:05:29 PM UTC, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> writes:
>>
>> > Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>
>> >> if (scanf("%d", &number) == 1)
>>
>> Do you think this is "astoundingly difficult"?
>>
> Tempting, but it's undefined behaviour if fed with a huge integer like
> "10000000000000000000000000000000000000", in C89 at least. No sane
> implementation would crash out, but it's not clear how it should
> behave.
> The worst feature is that
>
> scanf("%d, %d\n", &a, &b)
>
> when fed with
>
> 100,
> 200
>
> will still convert 2 fields.
Why is that not the best feature of scanf?
To be less cryptic, I think you missed the point. In this context the
instructor gets to choose the input format and what should and should
not be handled and how. The instructor can set things up so that
students make headway with a whole range of things (functions,
variables, arithmetic, control flow and so on) without input being a
huge barrier.
What would you suggest in place of
if (scanf("%d", &number) == 1)
in an introductory C course?
--
Ben.
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solution allocation of memory and composite numbers Dexterr <dejangru@gmail.com> - 2014-12-24 05:52 -0800
Re: solution allocation of memory and composite numbers Dexterr <dejangru@gmail.com> - 2014-12-24 05:55 -0800
Re: solution allocation of memory and composite numbers Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-24 06:41 -0800
Re: solution allocation of memory and composite numbers Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-12-24 20:16 +0000
Re: solution allocation of memory and composite numbers Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-24 12:39 -0800
Re: solution allocation of memory and composite numbers Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-24 21:22 +0000
Re: solution allocation of memory and composite numbers Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-12-24 22:33 +0000
Re: solution allocation of memory and composite numbers Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-25 00:54 +0000
Re: solution allocation of memory and composite numbers Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-24 18:38 -0800
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