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From: snoopy@doghouse.gwd.tek.com (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,misc.jobs.misc
Subject: Re: weird c code/ c test
Message-ID: <8919@tekecs.TEK.COM>
Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 17:21:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 30 17:21:44 1987
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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:

|  See if you can determine the output of this program 
| without actually compiling it:
| 
| #include	<stdio.h>
| 
| char *c[] = { "ENTER", "NEW", "POINT", "FIRST" };
| char **cp[] = { c+3, c+2, c+1, c };
| char ****cpp = cp;
| 
| main()
| {
|     printf("%s", **++cpp);
|     printf("%s ", *--*++cpp+3);
|     printf("%s", *cpp[-2]+3);
|     printf("%s\n", cpp[-1][-1]+1);
| }

It works much better if you use

	char ***cpp = cp;

instead of

	char ****cpp = cp;

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