Re: [TCLUG:10678] Simple C Question

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 10:43:11AM -0600, Mike Hicks wrote:
> Brian Ackermann wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, simple question for all you C programmers out there...
> > 
> > Here's the line of code in question...
> > 
> > printf("%s\n", (char *)(FO_Offset+=16));
> 
> Hmm.. looks to me like this would output the ASCII characters with the
> values 16, 32, etc., instead of the strings '16', '32', etc..

	No, he's lucky he's not core-dumping his program.  He's
generating pointers off into random chunks of memory and hoping to find
strings there.

Have fun (if at all possible),
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