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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 10[25]==35? Really?
Summary: Only if you make it that way!
Message-ID: <950@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 91 13:56:50 GMT
References: <25694@netcom.COM>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <25694@netcom.COM> avery@netcom.COM (Avery Colter) writes:
>With all this about the #define X1 -10, I find it interesting that
>indexing a constant yields the sum of the constant and the number inside
>the brackets.
>
>I could RTFM till the cows come home and never would have gleaned this.

Well, if you would RTF code, you would've seen an initialization loop
that looked something like this:

  for( i = 0 ; i < N ; i++ ) p[i] = i ;

(That's probably not exactly what was in the code, but you get the idea.)

Just another tricky day for you...

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Dave Schaumann      | Is this question undecidable?
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