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From: beyer@houxs.ATT.COM (J.BEYER)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Fun C typos (was *p++ = *q++)
Summary: I love typos in C, too...
Message-ID: <1184@houxs.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 Feb 89 22:32:49 GMT
References: <777@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <223@nbires.nbi.com>
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Organization: AT&T BL Holmdel NJ USA
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In article <223@nbires.nbi.com>, maa@nbires.nbi.com (Mark Armbrust) writes:
> In article <777@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
> >
> >   I guess it's just a knee-jerk reaction to "=" in a "while".
> >
> I just love typos in C.  One time I ended up with something like:
> 
> 	if (a |= b) ...

One that took me a while to find was, roughly,

for(i == 0; ...

Now the funny thing was that i was seldom equal to zero on entry to this
loop, so it started at FALSE or 0 almost always. But once in a while
i did == 0, so the loop would start at TRUE sometimes. TRUE is not 0 in
our implimentation. Very  vexing to find.


-- 
Jean-David Beyer
A.T.&T., Holmdel, New Jersey, 07733
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