Explanation, someone??

[Fred Christiansen]

>From article <33641 at usc.edu>, by burzin at skat.usc.edu (Burzin N. Engineer):
>> Hi,
>> 	I just gave an interview which had a C quiz ..

Sounds like you interviewed at Microsoft (what they gave me was a tad diff).

>> char *c[] = {"ENTER", "NEW", "POINT", "FIRST"};
>> char **cp[] = { c+3, c+2, c+1, c};
>> [Then, a bunch of cryptic ptr stuff]

>> Another one is :
>> char input[] = "SSSWILTECH1\1\11W\1WALLMP1";
>> [Switch inside a loop]

When I taught at Portland State U a couple years back, these were precisely
two of the questions on the final prepared by the previous adjunct prof.
I felt that spending the time to run them thru such a beast as the first
was probably ill spent as it was not "real life", IMHO.  While the second
is equally non "real life", it is simpler to understand...so I stole it 8-)
and used variations on the theme on the finals I gave.  Hmm, wonder where
the original is from?  The Obfuscated C Contest?
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