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What textbook would that be exactly?? (not that it matters) The point isn't "can I understand it"... the point is "Would someone who hadn't seen it before hav
by TickleSteve 10y ago
What textbook would that be exactly?? (not that it matters)
The point isn't "can I understand it"...
the point is "Would someone who hadn't seen it before have to do another mental operation to understand it?"
...and yes... dereferencing is another operation you have to do in your head to understand it.
- RandomOpinion 10y agoWell, I'm at work so I can't dig around my library but it was easy enough using date range restrictions to find an academic example in Google that dates back to '99: http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/105/LinkedListProblems.pdf http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/105/LinkedListProblems.pdf . (It was actually the first hit.) Searching further backwards in time is left as an exercise to the reader. Multi-level pointer dereferencing is a fundamental C / assembly language skill and Linus' example was just about the most basic example there is.
- TickleSteve 10y agoWe will have to agree to disagree on that point.... And I have just as much experience in c as Linus.