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From: lmiller@venera.isi.edu (Larry Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: weird c code/ c test
Message-ID: <3345@venera.isi.edu>
Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 12:37:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: venera.3345
Posted: Tue Aug  4 12:37:25 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Aug-87 10:42:57 EDT
References: <1089@gilsys.UUCP> <3640001@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: lmiller@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Larry Miller)
Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California
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In article <3640001@hpindda.HP.COM> ptc@hpindda.HP.COM (Paul Congdon) writes:
>/ hpindda:comp.lang.c / mc68020@gilsys.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) / 11:17 pm  Jul 28, 1987 /
>
>   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:
>
>#include	<stdio.h>
>
>char *c[] = { "ENTER", "NEW", "POINT", "FIRST" };
>char **cp[] = { c+3, c+2, c+1, c };
>char ****cpp = cp;
    /* Note this line is incorrect.  It should be:
		char ***cpp = cp;	
	i.e., one less *
    */
>
>main()
>{
>    printf("%s", **++cpp);
>    printf("%s ", *--*++cpp+3);
>    printf("%s", *cpp[-2]+3);
>    printf("%s\n", cpp[-1][-1]+1);
>}

  With this correction, the program compiles and runs correctly, indeed
  producing rather humorous output.