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> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:26:30PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > tool. A good C program should compile and run on GCC on Linux, Unix, > > Cygwin or on Windows as a console app compiled under Visual C++. true enough. My prof at NEU stated the compiler requirement on day one. Her reason was that nether she nor the TA's wanted to get questions like "how do I .... under Visual Studios?". ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Martin" <blu at sophic.org> To: <discuss at blu.org> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 11:20 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Visual C++ question > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > While I agree with this 100%, I ran into a situation where I initially > received a failing grade on an assignment because the workstations I > did my homework on had old versions of the C libraries, and a > particular standard library function (I think it may have been > fscanf(), but I don't really remember and it doesn't really matter) in > a critical peice of code had a different return value on the > workstations (old DEC workstations running some ancient version of > Ultrix) than it did on the CS server (a newer Alpha server running > OSF/1). On one system, the function returned zero if there was an > error, and on the other it returned -1. Or something like that. I'm > a bit sketchy on the details (this was 6 years ago), but the point is > that the value returned evaluated to TRUE on one, and FALSE on the > other. > > After demonstrating to the TA that it ran perfectly on the > workstations, and explaining why the results were different (which the > TA verified), my grade was changed to A. :) > > - -- > Derek D. Martin > http://www.pizzashack.org/ > GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+TcApHEnASN++rQIRAiGuAJ9Lb7tTCiOLL8hn3eg8nWf15W/2VgCggFTR > FB0D1LoXQyQmf/jQ06bYc0k= > =9vsC > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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