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From: lmiller@venera.isi.edu (Larry Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Weird C code as test for employment
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Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 12:37:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  7 12:37:17 1987
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In article <8644@brl-adm.ARPA> Leisner.Henr@Xerox.COM (marty) writes:
>Thinking about it, I think the test may have value.
>
>Not so much for coming up with the correct answer, but being able to
>demonstrate an approach to attack the problem.
>

Here's how I "solved" the test--

  1)  Run through lint.  That immediately found the ****cp vs ***cp
      problem.
  2)  Compiled the first version and looked at the output on running it.
      Weird.
  3)  Fixed the code based on the lint output, recompiled and ran.  Output
      looked reasonable.

Lesson--Run all code through lint.