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My score is 3/5. One immediate redflag I have noticed is using "int", "char", "short" as if they have a definite size. They don't. C standard only guarantees a

My score is 3/5. One immediate redflag I have noticed is using "int", "char", "short" as if they have a definite size. They don't. C standard only guarantees a minimum size. For example, many PDPs are 36-bit. Assuming the size of a variable is a common practice nowadays, but at least one should use uint8_t, int32_t, etc. from stdint.h. But I was still tricked, it should be obvious in hindsight, 12 years of schooling led me to think: If the author was asking these questions, at least one or two questions must be answerable (even if it's technically incorrect, but you'd better to guess the original intention of a question). So I still tried to guess and got two wrong answers... Get to be careful next time...

Raymonf 7y ago
In school, I was taught to choose the "best answer" on a test or quiz, and if you don't know something, choose the answer that looks right to you. This test.. it reverses that entirely.
- gravypod 7y ago
  Unfortunately the "best answer" is taken to mean "the wrong answer that the teacher programmed into you".
- scarface74 7y ago
  I only got two out of five. One so really didn’t know and I remembered enough C to remember sequence points.
- NohatCoder 7y ago
  It is school that gets it wrong. In real life, knowing that you don't know something and acting accordingly is often way better than taking a guess.
JKCalhoun 7y ago
4/5 here. In fact after the third question provided "I don't know" as an answer I started to suspect something was up — especially since the author said only one answer was the right one ... why even provide "I don't know" then, I wondered? I knew "int" was sort of platform-dependent (was 16-bits generally when I was learning to code, later 32-bit became more typical) — so combined with that niggle and all the "I don't knows", I (correctly) reevaluated by first couple of answers. Still, didn't realize the last one was compiler-dependent.

Raymonf 7y ago

In school, I was taught to choose the "best answer" on a test or quiz, and if you don't know something, choose the answer that looks right to you. This test.. it reverses that entirely.

gravypod 7y ago
Unfortunately the "best answer" is taken to mean "the wrong answer that the teacher programmed into you".
scarface74 7y ago
I only got two out of five. One so really didn’t know and I remembered enough C to remember sequence points.
NohatCoder 7y ago
It is school that gets it wrong. In real life, knowing that you don't know something and acting accordingly is often way better than taking a guess.

JKCalhoun 7y ago

4/5 here. In fact after the third question provided "I don't know" as an answer I started to suspect something was up — especially since the author said only one answer was the right one ... why even provide "I don't know" then, I wondered? I knew "int" was sort of platform-dependent (was 16-bits generally when I was learning to code, later 32-bit became more typical) — so combined with that niggle and all the "I don't knows", I (correctly) reevaluated by first couple of answers. Still, didn't realize the last one was compiler-dependent.