Re: K&R Exercise 6-2

#1 August 29th, 2008, 12:45 PM

On Aug 29, 5:11*am, Eric Sosman <esos...@ieee-dot-org.invalidwrote:

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mdh wrote:

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In most of the exercises that K&R write, there seems to be a
relationship to some library function .......

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Exercise 6-2

* * *The exercise seems designed to point out the difference
between strcmp() and strncmp(), in the context of a comparison
function for qsort(). *So there's certainly a library tie-in,
if that's what you felt was missing.
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Thank you Eric.

#2 August 31st, 2008, 01:15 AM

Pilcrow <pilcrow@pp.infowrites:
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Having been one who programmed on an EBCDIC machine, I wonder which
machines might still be using EBCDIC, given the ubiquity of ASCII?

Some IBM mainframes.

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