Re: C programming question

2010-04-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:13:36 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> I'm going to be filing a bug report against parted for (a) miscalculating >> the starting block of the implicit partition on an ldl (Linux Disk Layout) >> formatted disk on the s390 architecture when

Re: C programming question

2010-04-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1876691691.55741.1271378240260.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com>, Stephen Powell wrote: >I'm going to be filing a bug report against parted for (a) miscalculating > the starting block of the implicit partition on an ldl (Linux Disk Layout) > formatted disk on the s390 architecture when the b

Re: C programming question

2010-04-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:09:43 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:43:21 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 2010-04-15 19:37, Stephen Powell wrote: >>> >>> I'm going to be filing a bug report against parted for (a) miscalculating >>> the starting block of the implicit part

Re: C programming question

2010-04-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:43:21 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-15 19:37, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> I'm going to be filing a bug report against parted for (a) miscalculating >> the starting block of the implicit partition on an ldl (Linux Disk Layout) >> formatted disk on the s390 arch

Re: C programming question

2010-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-15 19:37, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] I'm going to be filing a bug report against parted for (a) miscalculating the starting block of the implicit partition on an ldl (Linux Disk Layout) formatted disk on the s390 architecture when the block size is other than 4096, and (b) no supp

Re: C programming question

2010-04-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:39:42 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> In short, I need to >> (a) declare "cms_label" as a based structure, > > (above; trimmmed) >> >> (b) >> declare a pointer variable called "cms_ptr" and associate it with the >> "cms_label" structure,

Re: C programming question

2010-04-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 15 April 2010 13:56:00 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:10:55 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 April 2010 17:16:03 Stephen Powell wrote: > >> What I need to do is to have two structures overlay each other; so that > >> they occupy the same stor

Re: C programming question

2010-04-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:10:55 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 13 April 2010 17:16:03 Stephen Powell wrote: >> What I need to do is to have two structures overlay each other; so that >> they occupy the same storage. To be specific, here is a structure which >> describes the

Re: C programming question

2010-04-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 13 April 2010 17:16:03 Stephen Powell wrote: > What I need to do is to have two structures overlay each other; so that > they occupy the same storage. To be specific, here is a structure which > describes the volume label for an OS-formatted disk: > > struct __attribute__ ((packed))

Re: C programming question

2010-04-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100414_123342, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-14 09:31, Paul E Condon wrote: > [snip] > > > >non-obvious --- to the point that there was an open contest with > >prizes awarded for the most obfuscated example of C code. The prizes > >went to the code for which the judges were most surprised on

Re: C programming question [OT]

2010-04-14 Thread thib
Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] http://www1.us.ioccc.org/main.html I guess they got bored looking at normal production C code... Sometimes, I find the code there even more impressive: http://underhanded.xcott.com/ It's even more restricted, and not so pointless. Hiding in plain sight, beaut

Re: C programming question

2010-04-14 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > Unions have been in C for at least 20 years; probably since the Early > Days. Unions are in the first edition of K&R. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: C programming question

2010-04-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-14 09:31, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] non-obvious --- to the point that there was an open contest with prizes awarded for the most obfuscated example of C code. The prizes went to the code for which the judges were most surprised on seeing it run after they read the code and tried to

Re: C programming question

2010-04-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephen Powell wrote: I realize that this is not a C forum, per se, but this is a Debian-specific C question. I am trying to add support to the parted utility for CMS-formatted disks on the s390 architecture. The source code is written in C, of course. But I am not a C programmer. I can spell

Re: C programming question

2010-04-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100413_193540, Robert Baron wrote: > What a great little learning project. > > My suggestion is to work out a simpler version of what you are trying to do: > > typedef struct { > unsigned short rec_type; > long data; > } type1; > > typedef struct { > unsigned short rec_type; >

Re: C programming question

2010-04-13 Thread Robert Baron
What a great little learning project. My suggestion is to work out a simpler version of what you are trying to do: typedef struct { unsigned short rec_type; long data; } type1; typedef struct { unsigned short rec_type; char data[4]; } type2; . some_type *chunk_of_mem; long

RE: C programming question

2010-04-13 Thread Mike Viau
> Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:29:51 -0500 wrote: > > On 2010-04-13 17:16, Stephen Powell wrote: > > I realize that this is not a C forum, per se, but this is a Debian-specific > > C question. I am trying to add support to the parted utility for > > CMS-formatted > [snip] > > > > I know how to do this

Re: C programming question

2010-04-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-13 17:16, Stephen Powell wrote: I realize that this is not a C forum, per se, but this is a Debian-specific C question. I am trying to add support to the parted utility for CMS-formatted [snip] I know how to do this in PL/I, but despite having spent the last two hours paging throug

Re: c programming question w/ ncurses

1998-08-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Fix below: Keith wrote: > I am trying to fumble through learning how to do some C programming. > In the book I am using, Beginning Linux Programming they are now trying > to use ncurses. I am getting the following errors when I try to compile > my source. I am compiling with this command: > > $ c