Re: [SLUG] C Gurus

[Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd-slug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

O Plameras wrote:

> Hi Hal,
> 
> My son's library has the fourth edition with co-authors, Peter Aitken 
> and Bradley L. Jones.
> In that edition Eric is not included as co-author yet. 

Thats correct (although the spelling of my name os not).

> But the
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0672315971/102-2858012-6274528?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance
> 
> says he is.
> 
> I had a quick look at the fourth edition and I noticed that the examples says word-size is 2 bytes
> meaning this fourth edition was written with 16-bit PCs as the test platform.
> 
> I'm just wondering if the latest edition has examples that were modified for 32-bit PCs.

In the book I co-authored, this issue is dealt with on pages 39 to 42.
In this section I supply an example program called sizeof.c which 
prints out the sizes of the various numeric types (including long). 
I also show the output of this program on a 32 bit i386 CPU as well 
as a 64 bit DEC/Compaq Alpha CPU.

If you come to the SLUG meeting on Friday, I will bring you a copy of 
this book so you can see for yourself. If you then publically admit
that you were wrong on this issue you can keep the book [1].

Erik

[1] I don't think this book is perfect. It was published in 1999 and
    I have leanrt a lot about C and programming since then.
-- 
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  Erik de Castro Lopo
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"I could never learn to use C++, because of the completely 
overwhelming desire to redesign the language every time I tried 
to use it, but this is the normal, healthy reaction to C++."
-- Erik Naggum