Re: What are some tricky C questions?

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From: James Bonfield
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 13:11

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In article <4jol5v$1qs@solutions.solon.com> wawda@chaph.usc.edu (Abu Wawda) writes:
>After reading the thread on "Good C interview questions", I've got to
>ask people to post some tricky/trivia questions on programming in C or
>even programming in general. Does anyone have any? Thanks in advance.

How about explaining what following construct does. What can be said about the
values of l and i at the end?

    size_t l;
    int i = MAXINT;

    l = sizeof(++i);

:-)

	James
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