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0x0d2C – Ode to C (suppo.fi)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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By Jon S. Stumpf

May your signals all trap
May your references be bounded
All memory aligned
Floats to ints rounded

Remember ...

Non-zero is true
++ adds one
Arrays start with zero
and, NULL is for none

For octal, use zero
0x means hex
= will set
== means test

use -> for a pointer
a dot if its not
? : is confusing
use them a lot

a.out is your program
    there's no U in foobar
and, char (*(*x())[])() is
    a function returning a pointer
    to an array of pointers to
    functions returning char

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is older than many reading here … and C was already old when this was written.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or should I say, when this was posted on Usenet. Who knows when it was written.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Usenet post I linked to claims it's originally from the 1st quarter of 1990, but who knows if that's accurate or not. I actually can't find a good source for whether Stumpf is the original author or just the one who posted it to rec.humor.funny.reruns, but it's usually attributed to him at any rate.

But yeah, fairly ancient by internet standards. I remember first running into it in the 90's

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dump a core out for my homies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

No need. Intel dumped all of them out, even if it was onto the rest of the motherboard.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I like it