How to we return two values from a function?

[Ben Pfaff]

whats going on .... in these thread...

Many posters chose to comment on my signature, rather than on the
substantive content of my article. I can't imagine why, as I do
believe that it conformed to all Usenet conventions.

But we did answer your question, didn't we? If not, please
explain what is still unclear and I'm sure that we can help you
out.

 

[Tor Rustad]

Here is the thesis itself:
http://footstool.stanford.edu/~blp/private/thesis.pdf

Viritual HW interfases, sound like an abstract C API..

well done!

 

[Tor Rustad]

Hi all,

Is there any way to return two values from a
function ....................

C has pointers, which can return the address of the object you
like. Example:

T* foo(size_t N)
{
return malloc( N * sizeof (T) );
}

 

[Richard Heathfield]

Ben Pfaff said:

Many posters chose to comment on my signature, rather than on the
substantive content of my article. I can't imagine why,

Well, this is a *news*group, and your signature did, after all, contain
news (whereas the article itself, though sound enough, was relatively
unnewsy to many of its readers).

 

[pete]

Here is the thesis itself:
http://footstool.stanford.edu/~blp/private/thesis.pdf
I am most proud of chapter 2.

Thanks to everyone for the congratulations.

Dr Pfaff, Congratulations!!!

 

[Keith Thompson]

Here is the thesis itself:
http://footstool.stanford.edu/~blp/private/thesis.pdf
I am most proud of chapter 2.

Thanks to everyone for the congratulations.

Congratulations!

Now that you're a doctor, I've been having this odd pain in my left
shoulder ...

 

[Charlie Gordon]

Congratulations!

Now that you're a doctor, I've been having this odd pain in my left
shoulder ...

Sounds like the emacs shoulder syndrome: chronic pain caused by compulsive
stress keeping the left ctrl and/or alt keys down, further complicated by
the computing industry having moved these keys to unhandy locations over
time.

 

[Flash Gordon]

Richard Heathfield wrote, On 30/10/07 22:36:

Ben Pfaff said:


Well, this is a *news*group, and your signature did, after all, contain
news (whereas the article itself, though sound enough, was relatively
unnewsy to many of its readers).

Also no one was complaining about your sig, which was indeed an
appropriate way for you to distribute this piece of good news. I would
say the number of people commenting on it was a measure of the regard in
which you (Ben) are held.

 

[Mark McIntyre]

Now that you're a doctor, I've been having this odd pain in my left
shoulder ...

If I had a pound for every time I've heard /that/ joke, I'd have...
euh.... some money...
--
Mark McIntyre

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan

 

[SM Ryan]

# On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:10:28 -0700, in comp.lang.c , Keith Thompson
#
# >Now that you're a doctor, I've been having this odd pain in my left
# >shoulder ...
#
# If I had a pound for every time I've heard /that/ joke, I'd have...
# euh.... some money...

You do have to admire the clique's willingness to chase away what
they decide are off topic posts to maintain the topicality of
comp.lang.c and minimise irrelevant chatter.

 

[Richard Heathfield]

SM Ryan said:

# On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:10:28 -0700, in comp.lang.c , Keith Thompson
#
# >Now that you're a doctor, I've been having this odd pain in my left
# >shoulder ...
#
# If I had a pound for every time I've heard /that/ joke, I'd have...
# euh.... some money...

You do have to admire the clique's willingness to chase away what
they decide are off topic posts to maintain the topicality of
comp.lang.c and minimise irrelevant chatter.

Yes, I do, although I wouldn't call them a "clique" - in clc, TINC.

I also admire their ability to distinguish between "off-topic chatter that
politely enlivens group dynamics and is done and dusted in a few short
posts" and "off-topic discussions which run the risk of blurring the focus
of the group". No sensible person is going to take Keith's remark to Ben
as being indicative of medical discussions being topical here, and so no
harm is done to the group's overall focus.

I find it surprising that a sensible non-troll such as yourself should not
have noticed this rather obvious distinction.

 

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

Thanks to everyone for the congratulations.

Sounds like your sig should now read "DR. Ben Pfaff"

 

[Philip Potter]

Sounds like the emacs shoulder syndrome: chronic pain caused by compulsive
stress keeping the left ctrl and/or alt keys down, further complicated by
the computing industry having moved these keys to unhandy locations over
time.

I have a vi-al of something which will help that.

 

[Chris Dollin]

Ben Pfaff wrote:

.... a signature that expressed his doctoral status. Belated congratulations.
The printout awaits perusal. (A4 is too big for comfortable reading on the
way to/from the train ...)