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From: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,misc.jobs.misc
Subject: Re: weird c code/ c test
Message-ID: <346@mcdsun.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 18:07:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: mcdsun.346
Posted: Thu Jul 30 18:07:01 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Aug-87 12:06:47 EDT
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Reply-To: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division
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Keywords: test, employment, weird, code, pointers
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In article <1089@gilsys.UUCP> mc68020@gilsys.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) writes:
>   I just had a strange experience today.  I went to see a head hunter about
>an opening she wanted me to consider, and she popped this "C test" on me.
>Most of it was pretty straight forward, but the last question on the test
>was a **BITCH**.  See if you can determine the output of this program 
>without actually compiling it:
>  [program deleted]

Yes, if you could have answered this you would have definitely been
a 100% certified C wizard, probably also a certified psychic as well.
I finally gave up and cheated by compiling and running it on my
Sun and this is what it printed:

	POINTINT printf.c 1.1 86/07/07 SMIPOINT

Of course, after I made a rather minor change to the code it
printed something a little less cryptic...  :-) :-)

-Fred
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