Goldilocks and the Three Pointers
Once upon a time there were 3 pointers. The Papa pointer pointed to a big
array. The Mama pointer pointed to a double precision floating-point. And the
Baby pointer pointed to a little integer. One day they all entered a
function, and a little lost pointer named Goldilocks entered their house
(affectionately known as main()). Goldilocks was hungry so she called
strcpy() to copy Papa's array into herself. Her calls to malloc() slowed the
main program to a near standstill, but Goldie didn't care. She then went for
Mama's double precision floating-point. But before she could get Baby's
integer, the three pointers came back, and they were so angry at Goldie's
thievery that they caused a run-time error and the whole house caved in.
The above actually happened. I'm not kidding. Really.
In other words: OH MY GOD MY PROGRAM CRASHED AGAIN, IT WAS DUE THIS
MORNING AND IT DOESN'T WORK! I HATE C. I NEVER WANT TO SEE ANOTHER
POINTER AS LONG AS I LIVE. DOWN WITH KERNIGHAN AND RITCHIE!
--Tina "no, I'm not stressed...really" M.
P.S. After I wrote this I got the %&^%*$ program to work. I think it
wanted to spite me.
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