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05/06/08 18:07
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#154489 - It is an interview question
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Dance interviewee let me see you Dance.
Now exchange 2 variables without using a 3rd.
What was Ritchie's mother favorite color?
If a tree falls in the forest does it make a sound?
If you where a tree what kind would you be.

Unless It does make a difference on some CPU and you are supposed to be knowledgeable about it, the correct answer is how you answer.

In this case with ASNI C you can't. He left the interview without asking the answer. He should have said why? That is interesting where would you use that? How interesting, I think I will look that up when I get home.


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TopicAuthorDate
find the size of processor            01/01/70 00:00      
   C is not that portable!            01/01/70 00:00      
      thanks but could u clarify            01/01/70 00:00      
         I think you missed the point            01/01/70 00:00      
      Various compilers different results            01/01/70 00:00      
         Word size - not code size?            01/01/70 00:00      
            u r correct            01/01/70 00:00      
   Determining object sizes - at run time            01/01/70 00:00      
      Not quite            01/01/70 00:00      
         Correct !            01/01/70 00:00      
         not sure what you would do with the information            01/01/70 00:00      
            This was an interview question            01/01/70 00:00      
               More trick interview questions            01/01/70 00:00      
   I found the solution, Andy , Neil please comment            01/01/70 00:00      
      Great! Now do it in C            01/01/70 00:00      
         Same logic for C and asm            01/01/70 00:00      
            No, it isn't.            01/01/70 00:00      
      What would be the point?            01/01/70 00:00      
         It is worse than that            01/01/70 00:00      
   the whole question is silly            01/01/70 00:00      
      It can even get this silly...            01/01/70 00:00      
      It is an interview question            01/01/70 00:00      

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