RE: C Programming

2003-06-27 Thread Bailo, John
Why not learn c# for linux ? I am and its great! Check out: http://www.dotgnu.org -Original Message- From: Lazor, Ed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 2:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: C Programming I'm not new to programming, but it's been y

Re: C Programming

2003-06-27 Thread rm
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 15:05, Lazor, Ed wrote: > Know of any good mailing lists for C Programming on RedHat A great resource for C and C++ programming. Some of these guys are really good. http://www.cprogramming.com/board.html I've never found anything specific to Redhat in C programming - t

RE: C Programming

2003-06-27 Thread Lazor, Ed
I'm not new to programming, but it's been years since I coded in C. I'm working with a pre-established project done in C. Thanks in advance for any advice you have. -Ed > -Original Message- > How do you find the max index of an array? > > Depends on whether or not the array is null t

Re: C Programming

2003-06-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
Lazor, Ed wrote: Both actually. The specific question I'm trying to answer right now is... How do find the max index of an array? Depends on whether or not the array is null terminated. :) C is not a language I'd recommend to new programmers. Have you considered learning Python, or do you have

Re: C Programming

2003-06-27 Thread DarĂ­o Mariani
The http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html list called linux-c-programming has very low traffic and people that are with linux from its beggining and are willing to help anyone. Lazor, Ed wrote: Both actually. The specific question I'm trying to answer right now is... How do find the max

RE: C Programming

2003-06-27 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
You pass it as a function argument. If you declared the array within the block you are trying to access it, you can use sizeof() to get the total bytecount (not the number of elements). However, if you pass it to a function, sizeof() will just return the size of a pointer on your machine (probabl

Re: C Programming

2003-06-27 Thread MKlinke
On Friday 27 June 2003 21:30, Lazor, Ed wrote: > Both actually. > > The specific question I'm trying to answer right now is... How do > find the max index of an array? > > I tend to come up with a lot of questions like that as I'm learning > and any mailing lists would be helpful. I'm doing networ

RE: C Programming

2003-06-27 Thread Lazor, Ed
Both actually. The specific question I'm trying to answer right now is... How do find the max index of an array? I tend to come up with a lot of questions like that as I'm learning and any mailing lists would be helpful. I'm doing network programming on a RedHat box, so I'm assuming RedHat sp

Re: C Programming

2003-06-27 Thread MKlinke
On Friday 27 June 2003 21:05, Lazor, Ed wrote: > Know of any good mailing lists for C Programming on RedHat? > -Ed That's kind of a tall order there Ed. Are you looking for beginner's level programming to learn the 'C' language or somthing that'll help with the finer intracacies of the "Red H

Re: "c" programming question - regexec related

2001-01-11 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
Some of my programs use regcomp/regexec on RH7 and I've not seen a problem. Memory problems can be most insidious .. you might want to compile against something like efence or (if you've the luxury of a platform supporting it), Purify. - Bruce Rick Forrister wrote: > Am having a problem w

Re: C programming question...[OT]

2000-05-08 Thread Neil Hollow
Can anyone recommend a good c programming newsgroup for general questions and queries. NH -- >From: Sam Bayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: C programming question...[OT] >Date: Fri, May 5, 2000, 3:42 am > >First of all, thank everyone

Re: C programming question...[OT]

2000-05-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
Sam Bayne wrote: > Hee hee, perl doesn't have pointers, but it DOES have references. Really? I thought those were new in Perl 5.6. > they have some idiot protections WRT segfault.) The thing that is really > confusing about C's pointers is not the "they're memory locations" > thing, > it's the

Re: C programming question...[OT]

2000-05-05 Thread Steve Borho
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 01:24:30PM -0400, rpjday wrote: > On Fri, 5 May 2000, Ken Gosier wrote: > > > > > --- Steve Borho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Speaking to just pure style, though, that while loop > > > reminds me of the > > > most efficient C snippet I've ever seen. It's the > > > s

Re: C programming question...[OT]

2000-05-05 Thread rpjday
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Ken Gosier wrote: > > --- Steve Borho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Speaking to just pure style, though, that while loop > > reminds me of the > > most efficient C snippet I've ever seen. It's the > > standard implementation > > of strcpy. > > > > for (;*s;) > >

RE: C programming question...[OT]

2000-05-05 Thread Mike McNally
> --- Steve Borho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Speaking to just pure style, though, that while loop > > reminds me of the > > most efficient C snippet I've ever seen. It's the > > standard implementation > > of strcpy. > > > > for (;*s;) > > *d++ = *s++; > > > One question about th

Re: C programming question...[OT]

2000-05-05 Thread Ken Gosier
--- Steve Borho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking to just pure style, though, that while loop > reminds me of the > most efficient C snippet I've ever seen. It's the > standard implementation > of strcpy. > > for (;*s;) > *d++ = *s++; One question about this code snippet: Won't

Re: C programming question...[OT]

2000-05-04 Thread Sam Bayne
First of all, thank everyone for helping me out with idiotic basic questions. Gordon Messmer wrote: > > 1) No, the programmers declared an array of 5 character pointers, not > an array of 5 characters. Perl 5 doesn't have pointers, so I understand > your confusion :) They're one of the things

Re: C programming question...[OT]

2000-05-04 Thread Tim Hockin
> #define MAXARG 4 > static char *dirs[MAXARG+1]; a 5 element array of pointers to characters (strings). > ac--; av++; > if (ac==0) dirs[0] = "/tftpboot"; /* default directory */ > while (ac-- > 0 && n < MAXARG) > dirs[n++] = *av++; > 1

Re: C programming question...[OT]

2000-05-04 Thread Steve Borho
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 05:23:37PM -0700, Sam Bayne wrote: > while (ac-- > 0 && n < MAXARG) > dirs[n++] = *av++; > > 3. Stylistically, is that 'while' statement normal? It looks to > me like a syntax mistake waiting to happen, but I'll code > to th

Re: C programming question...[OT]

2000-05-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
1) No, the programmers declared an array of 5 character pointers, not an array of 5 characters. Perl 5 doesn't have pointers, so I understand your confusion :) They're one of the things that non-C programmers bitch about. (If you don't understand pointers, using them is a quick way to a segfau

Re: C programming question...[OT]

2000-05-04 Thread Steve Borho
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 05:23:37PM -0700, Sam Bayne wrote: > So There I am, rooting around in the source to the tftpd server > (never you mind why) when I see this: > > - > #define MAXARG 4 > static char *dirs[MAXARG+1]; > > int > main(int ac, char *

Re: C programming......HOWTO begin...?

1998-04-15 Thread Deryk Barker
Once upon a time Edmunds, Keith wrote: > > On Friday, April 10, 1998 2:46 PM, Jacek Andreas Matulla > [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > well I know someone who wants to learn C++ or C programming. As I just use > > Linux, I have no idea about programming > > On the whole C programmers fall

RE: C programming......HOWTO begin...?

1998-04-15 Thread Edmunds, Keith
On Friday, April 10, 1998 2:46 PM, Jacek Andreas Matulla [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > well I know someone who wants to learn C++ or C programming. As I just use > Linux, I have no idea about programming On the whole C programmers fall into two categories: those who started out by getting

Re: C programming......HOWTO begin...?

1998-04-15 Thread James Youngman
> "elg" == "Eric L Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: elg> No, but Kernighan and Ritchie, "The 'C' Programming Language", elg> is. It's the kind of book they don't make anymore -- slim, elg> concise, thorough, accurate. Most books today remind me of elg> Oprah on

Re: C programming......HOWTO begin...?

1998-04-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Mike Bridge wrote: > > My most-used C reference book is Harbison & Steele's "C: A Reference Manual", > > but it's not really a good introductory book. > No, but Kernighan and Ritchie, "The 'C' Programming Lang

Re: C programming......HOWTO begin...?

1998-04-13 Thread Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Mike Bridge wrote: > My most-used C reference book is Harbison & Steele's "C: A Reference Manual", > but it's not really a good introductory book. No, but Kernighan and Ritchie, "The 'C' Programming Language", is. It's the kind of book they don't make anymore -- slim, concis

Re: C programming......HOWTO begin...?

1998-04-10 Thread Mike Bridge
> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 12:21:25 EDT > From: GBNSCHBACH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: C programming..HOWTO begin...? > Since Unix C and Windows C are different, start with Linux and get >

Re: C programming......HOWTO begin...?

1998-04-10 Thread GBNSCHBACH
Since Unix C and Windows C are different, start with Linux and get Steve Kochan's book Programming in C, later on get Topics in C. Another good book is Kelly and Pohl - A book on C. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.