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Week 3 - Friday
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What did we talk about last time? Bitwise practice Precedence Control flow
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Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity. Dennis Ritchie Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity. Dennis Ritchie
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Loops can go on forever if you aren’t careful int n = 40; int i = 1; while( i <= 40 ) { printf("%d", i); //supposed to print all the numbers //less than 40, but i never increases } int n = 40; int i = 1; while( i <= 40 ) { printf("%d", i); //supposed to print all the numbers //less than 40, but i never increases }
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Infinite for loops are unusual, but possible: This situation is more likely: for( ; ; ) printf("Hey!"); for( ; ; ) printf("Hey!"); int i; for(i = 0; i < 10; i++ ) { printf("%d", i); //lots of other code i--; //whoops, maybe changed from while? } int i; for(i = 0; i < 10; i++ ) { printf("%d", i); //lots of other code i--; //whoops, maybe changed from while? }
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Overflow and underflow will make some badly written loops eventually terminate int i; for( i = 1; i <= 40; i-- ) //whoops, should have been i++ printf("%d", i); int i; for( i = 1; i <= 40; i-- ) //whoops, should have been i++ printf("%d", i);
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Being off by one is a very common loop error int i; for( i = 1; i < 40; i++ ) //runs 39 times printf("%d", i); int i; for( i = 1; i < 40; i++ ) //runs 39 times printf("%d", i);
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If the condition isn’t true to begin with, the loop will just be skipped int i; for( i = 1; i >= 40; i++ ) //oops, should be <= printf("%d", i); int i; for( i = 1; i >= 40; i++ ) //oops, should be <= printf("%d", i);
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A misplaced semicolon can cause an empty loop body to be executed Everything looks good, loop even terminates But, only one number will be printed: 41 Misplaced semicolon usually makes a while loop infinite int i; for( i = 1; i <= 40; i++ ); //semicolon is wrong { printf("%d", i); } int i; for( i = 1; i <= 40; i++ ); //semicolon is wrong { printf("%d", i); }
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Systems programming concepts Functions and prototypes
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Read LPI chapter 3 and K&R chapter 4 Project 1 due tonight by midnight!
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