A little bit of C fun...

[John Carter]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Austin, Alex wrote:

> Oh, no... I'm dumb.
>
> typedef struct {
>        int x;
> } b;
>
> int a(b *param)
> {
>        return printf("%d\n", b->x);
> }
>
> int print_number(int c)
> {
>        return a(&(b){c});
> }

Great! You've got it!

Now for extra credit...

Where would this trick be sort of useful?

> I shorten it by one character....
>    a(&(b){})
>
> ... (but then it does something subtly more that the previous
> one...oooh I'm evil!)

What would your program print if you took out the c and why?

int print_number(void)
{
        return a(&(b){});
}




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