O Plameras wrote: > Hi Hal, > > My son's library has the fourth edition with co-authors, Peter Aitken > and Bradley L. Jones. > In that edition Eric is not included as co-author yet.
Thats correct (although the spelling of my name os not). > But the > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0672315971/102-2858012-6274528?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance > > says he is. > > I had a quick look at the fourth edition and I noticed that the examples says > word-size is 2 bytes > meaning this fourth edition was written with 16-bit PCs as the test platform. > > I'm just wondering if the latest edition has examples that were modified for > 32-bit PCs. In the book I co-authored, this issue is dealt with on pages 39 to 42. In this section I supply an example program called sizeof.c which prints out the sizes of the various numeric types (including long). I also show the output of this program on a 32 bit i386 CPU as well as a 64 bit DEC/Compaq Alpha CPU. If you come to the SLUG meeting on Friday, I will bring you a copy of this book so you can see for yourself. If you then publically admit that you were wrong on this issue you can keep the book [1]. Erik [1] I don't think this book is perfect. It was published in 1999 and I have leanrt a lot about C and programming since then. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "I could never learn to use C++, because of the completely overwhelming desire to redesign the language every time I tried to use it, but this is the normal, healthy reaction to C++." -- Erik Naggum -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
