hi,
I was asked this peculiar question in an interview - There's a one line
C code ( the simplest you can assume , a printf statement inside the
main) and a breakpoint has been set at that very first line. The code
compiles and runs but the debugger never reaches that breakpoint. What
could be the possible reason/bug/issue behind this. Does anyone have
any clue to this.
Thanks,
Shishir
Apr 5 '06
16  1748 
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006 15:06:33 +0200, in comp.lang.c , "Richard G. Riley"
<rg****@gmail.c om> wrote: On 2006-04-09, pete <pf*****@mindsp ring.com> wrote: Richard G. Riley wrote:
To the OP
ITYM Original Poster
I thought acronyms were frowned upon here?
It looks like you didn't.
Fair point ... ( I didnt know an acronym for that...).
YGMBTRG.
:-)
Mark McIntyre
--
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan
Mark McIntyre wrote: "Richard G. Riley" <rg****@gmail.c om> wrote:
.... snip ...
About every fourth post here, not to mention the regular 'welcome'
message, mentions it. And frankly anyone who can't use google is
probably not going to make a programmer anyway.
In addition, what is HTH and HAND? I thought acronyms were frowned
upon here?
What on earth gave you that idea?
The fact that we usually yell at imbeciles who insist on using
confusing and silly abbreviations such as 'u', 'ur' and 'plz'.
Acronyms are also pretty silly when their primary purpose is to
confuse the reader. Maybe you should join the Fraternal Order of
Programmers Accustomed to Clarity in Code and Prose. FOPACCAP.
Hope That Helps. Have A Nice Day.
--
"If you want to post a followup via groups.google.c om, don't use
the broken "Reply" link at the bottom of the article. Click on
"show options" at the top of the article, then click on the
"Reply" at the bottom of the article headers." - Keith Thompson
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Also see <http://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsrep ly/>
CBFalconer wrote: Mark McIntyre wrote: "Richard G. Riley" <rg****@gmail.c om> wrote:
... snip ... About every fourth post here, not to mention the regular 'welcome'
message, mentions it. And frankly anyone who can't use google is
probably not going to make a programmer anyway.
In addition, what is HTH and HAND? I thought acronyms were frowned
upon here?
What on earth gave you that idea?
The fact that we usually yell at imbeciles who insist on using
confusing and silly abbreviations such as 'u', 'ur' and 'plz'.
Acronyms are also pretty silly when their primary purpose is to
confuse the reader. Maybe you should join the Fraternal Order of
Programmers Accustomed to Clarity in Code and Prose. FOPACCAP.
Hope That Helps. Have A Nice Day.
"HTH. HAND." is an idiom. I doubt you could call its primary purpose
confusion. It may not be readily understood in all cases, but in this case
the speaker clearly expected it to be, if perhaps not necessarily by the
addressee.
The situation for "u", "ur" and "plz" is similar, except that in these cases
the idioms are considered a mark of unprofessionali ty and/or immaturity.
That their meaning is readily accessible even to the unfamiliar is not
disputed by anyone. Of course, this entire discussion itself is a rather
immature clash of egos with no real goal of a productive consensus, but as
they say, "YMMV".
What would Usenet come to if you could no longer use such eloquent
expressions as "TANSTAAFL" and "YKYBHTLW"? That they are unfamiliar to some
should not hold us back; the acronym dictionaries are only a few lookups away.
S.
In article <44************ ***********@new s.xs4all.nl>,
Skarmander <in*****@dontma ilme.com> wrote: "HTH. HAND." is an idiom. I doubt you could call its primary purpose
confusion. It may not be readily understood in all cases, but in this case
the speaker clearly expected it to be, if perhaps not necessarily by the
addressee.
The situation for "u", "ur" and "plz" is similar, except that in these cases
the idioms are considered a mark of unprofessionali ty and/or immaturity.
*personally*, I consider "HTH. HAND." to -usually- be marks of
unprofessionali ty and/or immaturity, as they are often written in
contexts where they would likely be interpreted as being dismissive.
--
"No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by
demanding empirical evidence." -- Ann Landers
Skarmander wrote:
.... snip ...
The situation for "u", "ur" and "plz" is similar, except that in
these cases the idioms are considered a mark of unprofessionali ty
and/or immaturity. That their meaning is readily accessible even
to the unfamiliar is not disputed by anyone. Of course, this
entire discussion itself is a rather immature clash of egos with
no real goal of a productive consensus, but as they say, "YMMV".
No, they are not similar. They depend on prononciation, and many
participants here have only some writing contact with English, so
prononciation is meaningless to them, and the abbreviations are
meaningless. Besides marking the user as immature they also show
him/her to be careless and imprecise.
--
"If you want to post a followup via groups.google.c om, don't use
the broken "Reply" link at the bottom of the article. Click on
"show options" at the top of the article, then click on the
"Reply" at the bottom of the article headers." - Keith Thompson
More details at: <http://cfaj.freeshell. org/google/>
Also see <http://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsrep ly/>
CBFalconer <cb********@yah oo.com> wrote: "Richard G. Riley" <rg****@gmail.c om> wrote:
In addition, what is HTH and HAND? I thought acronyms were frowned
upon here?
Hope That Helps. Have A Nice Day.
Not necessarily in the case Mr. Riley refers to.
HTH - HAND!
Richard
On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 18:19:05 -0400, in comp.lang.c , CBFalconer
<cb********@yah oo.com> wrote: Mark McIntyre wrote: "Richard G. Riley" <rg****@gmail.c om> wrote:
... snip ...
About every fourth post here, not to mention the regular 'welcome'
message, mentions it. And frankly anyone who can't use google is
probably not going to make a programmer anyway.
In addition, what is HTH and HAND? I thought acronyms were frowned
upon here?
What on earth gave you that idea?
The fact that we usually yell at imbeciles who insist on using
confusing and silly abbreviations such as 'u', 'ur' and 'plz'.
Those aren't acronyms.
Acronyms are also pretty silly when their primary purpose is to
confuse the reader.
TAANSTAFL.
:-)
Mark McIntyre
--
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
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