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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: AT&T 630 terminal - software ??
Message-ID: <1367@X.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 89 08:02:00 GMT
References: <1800005@spdyne> <9434@ihlpb.ATT.COM>
Organization: Servants of the Great White Frog
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In article <9434@ihlpb.ATT.COM>, gregg@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Wonderly) writes:
A> Besides, if you think that your AST/286 is so good, run the following
r> C program, if you get the output
e> 1
 > 70000
y> Your C compiler wins my award for effort otherwise you won't get any
o> words of sympathy from me...
u> main ()
 > {
s> 	unsigned long i;
u> 	char *s, *malloc();
r> 	s = malloc ((unsigned)70000);
e> 	for (i=0; i < ((unsigned)70000); i++)
?> 		s[i] = i;
 > 	printf ("%d\n%d\n", s[1], s[(unsigned)70000]);
 > }

Uh.............
A C compiler which can figure out from the printf usage that you actually
meant to (a) declare s as long *, and (b) malloc and initialize 70,001
longwords instead of 70,000 bytes is probably going to win more than awards...

I think you forgot the

#pragma Do What I Mean

line.
-- 
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Presumably this means that it is vital to get the wrong answers quickly.
		Kernighan and Plauger, The Elements of Programming Style