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From: cja@umich.UUCP (Charles J. Antonelli)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: weird c code/ c test
Message-ID: <130@umich.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Aug-87 18:12:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: umich.130
Posted: Sat Aug  1 18:12:18 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Aug-87 21:41:03 EDT
References: <1089@gilsys.UUCP>
Reply-To: cja@crim.eecs.umich.edu.UUCP (Charles J. Antonelli)
Organization: EECS, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Lines: 18
Keywords: test, employment, weird, code, pointers
Summary: fix and comment

In article <1089@gilsys.UUCP> mc68020@gilsys.UUCP writes:
>See if you can determine the output of this program 
>without actually compiling it:
>
> ["pointer stew" program deleted]

Well, if you replace `****cpp' with `***cpp' you should get what the
author intended.

As far as measuring someone's ability is concerned, passing this "test"
demonstrates some elementary knowledge of pointers, the relationship
between pointers and arrays, and p. 48 of K&R.  There's a lot more
to C software development than that, folks.

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