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gandalf013

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    Comment #28117523

    India's population is approximately 4.5 times that of USA, so the actual ratio is "one American is emitting 35 Indians worth of carbon emissions".

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    Comment #24618350

    bc calculator doesn't (or didn't) define pi, but has atan. I've used "4*atan(1) method" in bc to get pi.

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    Comment #24051931

    Hobbes: Do you have an idea for your project yet? Calvin: No, I'm waiting for inspiration. You can't turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. Hobbes: Wha…

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    Comment #14152540

    A very common idiom is "T p = malloc(n sizeof *p)". That only works if sizeof doesn't evaluate its arguments.

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    Comment #8087573

    http://benpfaff.org/writings/clc/strncpy.html

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    Comment #7193622

    The standard actually specifies (or specified?) that the flexible array member must come after all the members, including the padding. But, from my reading, that wasn't their inten…

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    Comment #7192329

    A more correct version might be: #include int buf_offset = (int)offsetof(struct sdshdr, buf); struct sdshdr *sh = s - buf_offset; This is because the compiler might insert padding …