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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Seemingly equivalent code fragments in C
Keywords: C pointers Lightspeed int
Message-ID: <43933@bbn.COM>
Date: 7 Aug 89 20:28:54 GMT
References: <4882@tank.uchicago.edu>
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In article <4882@tank.uchicago.edu> s170@tank.uchicago.edu (harmon g washington) writes:

I'm no C wiz but at least here is one I know...

|In programming the Macintosh apple menu I tried to create the Apple symbol usingthe following code:
|	void MenuInits()
|{
|	int *bittenApple;

 You have defined a pointer to an int.
|	
|	*bittenApple = 0x0114;  	/* create Pascal string 1 byte long */

You have placed 0x0114 into the location pointed to by bittenApple,
but you have not initialized bittenApple; so you have changed the
contents of some random loaction.

|THIS CODE DID NOT WORK! . . . 

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