On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 03:09:55PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is this one of the wierd count things where 0 actually means 1 (as in > single processor) and 1 actually means 2 (as in dual processors)??
This is actually an artifact of C, which uses zero-based arrays instead of reserving the first slot for a length byte (e.g. Pascal). This is what gives rise to the common off-by-one errors in low- and mid-level languages. -- Find my Techno-Geek Journal at http://www.codegnome.org/geeklog/ _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
