From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Wed Apr 26 2000 - 09:15:18 CEST
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 07:10:22PM -0400, Alfie Costa nicely wrote:
> 
> ...so that 'foo.v1' and 'foo.v2' will be identical.  The old 'hexd' problem 
> seemed to be related to using the 'read()' function in the routine that 'hexd -
> d' calls.  Changing this routine so it uses 'fgets()' seems to be what fixes 
> it.  It's still a little bit of a mystery, but it works.
fgets() seems to be a deprecated function. Why?
> 
> 2) Pointers were used, which might be harder to read.  My first attempt used 
> array notation and so it was easier to read, but using pointers was faster.  
but array are indentical to pointers, in C. Isn't true?
> This approaches one of those political questions of "usage vs. programming 
> complexity".  This code leans more towards the 'harder to code but easier to 
> use camp'.
Beh, if the code is unreadable, the yours will be the last patch a this program!
Michele
-- I'd like to conclude with a positive statement, but I can't remember any. Would two negative ones do? -- Woody Allen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mulinux-unsubscribe@sunsite.auc.dk For additional commands, e-mail: mulinux-help@sunsite.auc.dk
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.6 : Sat Feb 08 2003 - 15:27:14 CET