Steve Summit

Steve Summit has asked 26 questions and find answers to 163 problems.

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C Programmer living in Cambridge, MA.
The history of this deleted question is a good reminder of why I should keep trying to stay away from here.
(What an unhappy place.)

Steve Summit questions

Wishing that sed had an equivalent for ed's handy j command
Why can't I return std::getline's as-if-boolean result?
Is it a bad idea to make a copy of an iterator?
ntp questions: slewing versus jumping the time
Compiler warning for function defined without prototype in scope?
partial inheritance of set of overloaded virtual functions
What's a modern term for "array/pointer equivalence"?

Steve Summit answers

Array of pointers to structs - why is malloc() required, why is direct field copies required?
Any number divided by 0 in C ,does it come under segmentation fault?
Is there a way to test for end of file in less than 3 syscalls?
For a float number a.bc without underflow and overflow, does a.bc.toString() always =="a.bc"? May it return something like "a.bc00000000000000000001"?
How to parse *(void **) (&cosine) if cosine is a fptr
How many values can be represented in a range when using 64-bit floating point type in the most efficient manner
Building GCC on OS X 10.11
What does reaping children imply?
Standard C function names
Calculate the number of days between two dates in C – Convert date to days