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Re:The Following Code Causes Segfault in Clang by gizmo686 on Saturday August 02, 2014 @06:17PM (#8126262)
What were you doing that lead to you finding this?
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Re:The Following Code Causes Segfault in Clang by Torn on Saturday August 02, 2014 @06:19PM (#8126266)
printing lots of stars?
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Re:The Following Code Causes Segfault in Clang by deathanatos on Saturday August 02, 2014 @06:35PM (#8126299)
The C program doesn't print stars. It appears to just call f. It just dereferences f quite a bit before eventually calling it. (He's printing stars in Python simply because it's a more concise way to represent a million stars.)
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