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Re: Write a C program that does NOT use time!

From "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Write a C program that does NOT use time!
Date 2016-11-18 01:00 +0800
Organization Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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On 18/11/2016 12:26 AM, Lew Pitcher wrote:
> The other "null" program was the Unix true(1) program. While most Unix systems
> now code true(1) something like
>   int main(void) { return 0; }
> (I'm told that) early versions of Unix used a program with no instructions at
> all. The loader would treat "fail to load because there's nothing there"
> as "success" with a return value of 0.

I forgot about this one. The usually one is hello.c!

Did you time this "null" program in various compilers? How short, if not 
real-time, is the execution time?

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Write a C program that does NOT use time! "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-15 19:16 +0800
  Re: Write a C program that does NOT use time! Robert Spanjaard <spamtrap@arumes.com> - 2016-11-15 13:30 +0100
    Re: Write a C program that does NOT use time! "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-15 21:11 +0800
      Re: Write a C program that does NOT use time! "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-16 01:42 +0800
  Re: Write a C program that does NOT use time! "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-15 21:44 +0800
    Re: Write a C program that does NOT use time! jameskuyper@verizon.net - 2016-11-16 06:52 -0800
    Re: Write a C program that does NOT use time! Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2016-11-17 11:26 -0500
      Re: Write a C program that does NOT use time! "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-18 01:00 +0800
      Re: Write a C program that does NOT use time! Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-11-17 09:07 -0800
  Re: Write a C program that does NOT use time! "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-11-15 09:46 -0800
    Re: Write a C program that does NOT use time! "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-16 11:46 +0800
      Re: Write a C program that does NOT use time! Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2016-11-16 08:09 -0600
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              Re: Write a C program that does NOT use time! Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-11-17 20:11 -0600
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                Re: C on IBM mainframes Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-11-21 03:19 -0600
                Re: C on IBM mainframes "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-21 19:12 +0800
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                Re: C on IBM mainframes "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-12-04 20:57 +0800
          Re: Write a C program that does NOT use time! David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-11-18 10:32 +0100

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