On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 14:29 -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote: > Welcome to the joy of pointer pointers. I'm not going to bother > explaining them, others already have, instead I'm going to point out > that you're not a real C programmer until you can handle pointer > pointers without blinking. (I was about to say, without making a > mistake, but that's too much to ask for in C isn't it?)
Having written a nice 10,000 line straight C app with tons of dynamic memory stuff (lots of variable tree structures), I have to agree. I had only one minor memory leak in all that code (relating to creating and destroying the complex tree structures). On the other hand, Python gives me such a warm fuzzy feeling. :) > > For real fun, ponder the pointer pointer pointer. Rarely sighted in the > wild, but sometimes unavoidable. Blew my mind the first time I ran into > one. > > I cower in fear before the pointer pointer pointer pointer, but > thankfully I'm pretty sure that such a beast would never be necessary in > the real world. > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
