2 Dec
2010
2 Dec
'10
7:30 p.m.
On 2010 Dec 2, at 7:16 PM, Brian Lanning wrote:
When I was working on my CS degree, about a half dozen
of us were
stumped by this one:
int somefunction()
{
while(somevalue == true);
{
printf("test\n");
}
}
Like the one from brent, it's a little more obvious without all the
extra code around the problem. The issue is that no matter what we
put in the criteria, we'd get either exactly one "test", or the while
loop would get stuck forever printing nothing. I finally did spot it
after about a hour of staring at it. Maybe we would all have found it
faster if it hadn't been 3 in the morning with us all pulling
all-nighters to get the assignment done.
Those annoying semi-colons. (Plus I hope you had "true" defined
appropriately.)