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From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: "Brian W. Kernighan" <bwk@princeton.edu>
Cc: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
	Matthew House <mattlloydhouse@gmail.com>
Subject: Errata in K&R C v2, page 97 (was: [PATCH v2] CONTRIBUTING: Please sign your emails with PGP)
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:19:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZV5iSVSuStYiXS7h@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZV4506eXcQhZj91V@debian>

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Hello Brian,

> On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 10:25:57AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > [1] I encourage anyone with either a reverential or heretical turn of
> >     mind to review §5.5 of the 2nd edition of _The C Programming
> >     Language_ and consider it light of our string_copying(7)
> >     discussions.  I would attend particularly to what is implied by the
> >     recommendation of Exercise 5-5 to implement strncat(3), strncmp(3),
> >     and strncpy(3) from scratch.
 
I just found an erratum in K&R C v2 §5.5:  In page 97, in the picture,
'amessage' and 'pmessage' are switched (IMO); pmessage should be the one
with the two boxes and an arrow, since it's the pointer one.  We didn't
find it in the existing list of errata[1], which Branden pointed to me.

[1]:  <https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/cbook.html>

Cheers,
Alex

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<https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-11-22 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-22 13:47 [PATCH v2] CONTRIBUTING: Please sign your emails with PGP Alejandro Colomar
2023-11-22 16:25 ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-11-22 17:26   ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-11-22 18:50     ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-11-22 20:08       ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-11-22 20:19     ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
     [not found]     ` <41b65637907f43ecafadd58565a7b483@DM6PR04MB4443.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>
2023-11-26 14:57       ` Errata in K&R C v2, page 97 (was: [PATCH v2] CONTRIBUTING: Please sign your emails with PGP) Brian Kernighan
2023-11-26 15:47         ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-11-26 15:49           ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-11-26 15:54             ` Brian Kernighan

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