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| From | Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers |
| Date | 2015-11-24 09:21 -0800 |
| Organization | None to speak of |
| Message-ID | <lnr3jf1fg8.fsf@kst-u.example.com> (permalink) |
| References | <dc62f43a-1725-496b-b36a-c3e196015b7d@googlegroups.com> <f786cecb-e476-4d9a-a4ee-e6b95aca17ba@googlegroups.com> |
guinness.tony@gmail.com writes:
> On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 16:49:38 UTC, Alla _ wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> Please, take a look at a paragraph from K&R, stating that this method
>> doesn't work on "multi-tasking machines". Given K&R was published in
>> 1999, I wonder if that statement still holds.
>>
>> QUOTE:
[SNIP]
>> Be warned!
>> END OF QUOTE
>
> Surely that doesn't appear in K&R? (I don't have a copy to hand).
>
> Both Brian and Dennis were good writers - I doubt that they (nor their
> publisher's proof-readers) would have allowed the phrase "on the hand"
> to have slipped through into the final publication. Nor would they have
> made the glaring error of referring to 'arrayname + 5' and '&(arrayname[5])'
> as 'the fifth character' and 'the fifth element'. And they are plural -
> the phrase "this author" would not appear in any joint work of theirs.
>
> That quoted text appears to come from this document:
>
> http://markburgess.org/CTutorial/C-Tut-4.02.pdf
>
> rather than from K&R.
Yes, we established the source a week ago in this thread.
--
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Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 08:49 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-11-17 12:36 -0500
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-17 17:47 +0000
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:34 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-17 12:16 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-11-17 15:23 -0500
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:33 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-17 09:41 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-17 10:03 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-17 20:31 +0000
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-17 12:53 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:32 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-17 18:45 +0000
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:53 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-17 15:05 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Philip Lantz <prl@canterey.us> - 2015-11-19 21:16 -0800
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Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-11-17 15:53 -0800
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Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-11-17 12:17 -0600
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-17 18:21 +0000
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-17 10:36 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-17 18:46 +0000
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Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:47 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-17 18:51 +0000
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:55 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-17 11:59 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-11-17 12:58 -0600
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-17 19:12 +0000
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-11-17 19:33 +0000
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Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:39 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:40 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-11-17 19:40 +0000
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-17 11:15 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-11-17 15:32 -0500
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-17 15:09 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-11-17 15:41 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-11-17 21:28 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-11-17 23:18 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-17 17:18 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-11-17 22:37 -0500
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Lőrinczy Zsigmond <zsiga@nospam.for.me> - 2015-11-18 11:27 +0100
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-18 06:13 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers guinness.tony@gmail.com - 2015-11-24 02:46 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-24 09:21 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 05:01 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-24 09:22 -0800
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Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 06:44 -0800
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