Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers

From	James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers
Date	2015-11-17 15:23 -0500
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On 11/17/2015 01:34 PM, Alla _ wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 9:47:45 PM UTC+4, Richard Heathfield wrote:
...
>> With even more than all due respect to K&R, I cannot recognise either 
>> the above text or the previous "game of life" example as being from K&R. 
>> Could Alla provide a page reference for both of these, and explain what 
>> she meant by her claim that "K&R was published in 1999"? If there was a 
>> third edition of K&R published in that year, I'd have thought it would 
>> have attracted sufficient attention from the C community that more of us 
>> would have heard of it.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> -- 
>> Richard Heathfield
>> Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
>> "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
>> Sig line 4 vacant - apply within
> 
> Have I deduced correctly that I am reading a wrong K&R version? ))) 
> Well.... 
> C Programming Tutorial
> 4th Edition (K&R version)
> Mark Burgess
> Faculty of Engineering, Oslo College
> 1999
> 

The term "K&R", when used in a C context, is very specifically a
reference to either a particular book titled "The C Programming
Language", or the version of C described by the first edition of that
book. K&R refers to it's authors, Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M.
Ritchie. That book has only ever had two editions, the first of which
came out in 1978, and the second of which was updated in 1988 to better
match the new C standard that had not yet been completed when it was
published. The second edition has the ISBN 978-0131103627.

The use of "K&R" in the description of the book you're referring to
identifies which version of C it describes. That does not make the book
itself "K&R". It has the wrong title, the wrong author, and the wrong
edition number and the wrong publication date to be "K&R". Amazon.com
doesn't sell any book matching your description. The closest it gets is
"The Gnu C Programming Tutorial".
-- 
James Kuyper

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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
        Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Anand Hariharan <mailto.anand.hariharan@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 15:47 -0800
        Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-11-17 15:53 -0800
          Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-18 04:05 +0000
      Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-11-17 19:41 +0000
  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
          Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:49 -0800
        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
    Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-11-17 13:25 -0500
  Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-17 18:31 +0000
    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
  Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 06:47 -0800
    Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 06:44 -0800

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