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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Important new program: cleanit.c
Message-ID: <3592@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 7 Oct 89 10:48:22 GMT
References: <3492@ast.cs.vu.nl> <3498@solo10.cs.vu.nl> <3539@ast.cs.vu.nl> <3554@solo2.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <3554@solo2.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>I think it's [# formals != #actuals] always illegal
I don't have K&R here, so I am not sure if it is legal.  As I said, it was
a bug, but either way, it is not varargs.  That has to do with computing
the address of one paramter from the address of another, and clean() certainly
does not do that.

>Anyway, what's wrong with the shell script?
People keep calling up P-H asking for the sources to spell and write
(shell scripts).  Furthermore, I find the shell script somewhat cryptic.

>"Sometimes it seems Marvin wrote MINIX while Andy was playing Donald Duck's
>Playground on Suzanne's computer."  (Benno van den Brink)  
I wouldn't write Marvin off quite so fast.  He's probably smarter than me.
I certainly didn't come in 2nd in the Amsterdam (or any other) chess
tournament for kids when I was 9.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)