Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : Matt Atterbury
Date : Thu Aug 18 2005 02:11 pm

CTips <ctips@bestweb.net> writes:

> >>>>Firstly, the name is wrong. (Why?)
> >>>
> >>>Yep.  (Conflicts with authority.)
> > 
> > 
> >>>>Secondly, some qualifiers are missing from the input parameters.
> >>>>(Which?)
> >>>
> >>>Yep.  (I'm constantly wondering about stuff like that.)
> > 
> > 
> >>Sorry, you're both wrong about these two. Care to guess why?
> >>
> >>[Yes, its a little nit-picky, but as long as we're testing C 
> >>programmers, we might as well get it right.]
> > 
> > 
> > Okay, I'll fessup--I'm stumped.
> > 
> Hint: you forgot a #include ...

I suspect the problem is that `str' is a POSIX standard, and, in 
isolation, this code is not [necessarily] POSIX compliant. OTOH,
the compiler might [be able to] enforce/check POSIX compliance
without the header file.

NFI why `const' is "wrong" :-)

m.
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Matt Atterbury                                                CTI Pty Ltd

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