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From: [e-mail] (Mike McCarty)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Please please help a newbie!!
Date: 15 Feb 1996 19:30:04 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications Corporation, Plano, Texas USA
Message-ID: <4g01js$[e-mail]>
References: <4fth5k$[e-mail]>
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In article <4fth5k$[e-mail]>,
Thomas Beck <[e-mail]> wrote:
)Hi there!
)
)It's quite embarrassing to ask those two questions, because they seem
)absolutely stupid (they probably are). Yesterday I started to learn C/C++. I
)bought a 700 pages book with a cd included that has two compilers on it). I
)fully understand the chapter about the types, but the things I program just
)can't be compiled. I extracted the following two problems:
)
)----------- example 1: -------------
)int i;
)int & a=i;
     ^ If you are trying to declare a pointer to
       an integer, and set it to point to i, then you need this line:

    int    *a = &i;


)main() {
)}

[error results cut]

)The second thing that doesn't work is this:
)
)----------- example 2: -------------
)struct abc {
)  int i;
)  char a;
)  void f1() {
        ^ If you are trying to declare a pointer
      to a function returning void, then you need
        void    *f1();
      no "{}" are needed.
)  };
)};
)
)main() {
)}

[errors cut]

)Before you think I'm absolutely stupid... I used to be very good at Pascal

Not stupid, just ignorance. And ignorance, like epoxy, can be cured
(there is no cure for stupidity).

Mike
----
char *p="char *p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}

I don't speak for DSC.         <- They make me say that.