From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: rlk@rational.com (Bob Kitzberger) Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with Date: 1996/08/15 Message-ID: <4uvej1$eus@rational.rational.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 174374446 references: <199608110535.WAA18572@pioneer.nevada.edu> <4up0ar$pim@news.ccit.arizona.edu> <01bb891c$0f2b34c0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> followup-to: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer organization: Rational Software Corporation newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer Date: 1996-08-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Tim Behrendsen (tim@airshields.com) wrote: > You are writing a preprocessor program that takes C source as > its input. The preprocessor replaces all variables and symbols > in the program with unique names of the form VARxxxxxx, where > "xxxxxx" is an incrementing decimal number. Describe what is > needed to handle the case where the input source file already > contains a variable of that form. Do they get extra credit if they hand-optimize to take into account paging locality, compiler optimizations, etc.? :-) -- Bob Kitzberger Rational Software Corporation rlk@rational.com http://www.rational.com http://www.rational.com/pst/products/testmate.html