Steve Summit

Steve Summit has asked 25 questions and find answers to 124 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

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

Dereferencing a pointer multiple times vs creating temp variable
gcc compiler optimization influences result of floating point comparison
Why does the integer representation of a floating point number offer a piecewise linear approximation to the logarithm?
How does printf("%d",x) work/interpreted?
What happens to already opened files when you change process ownership (uid/gid) in Linux?
Are you allowed to perform pointer arithmetic on an array that you no longer own?
why cast when the conversion is implicit?
history of memcpy and memset vs assignment and initialization
Square brackets after pointer declaration/reference
Getting Abbreviated timezone using strftime() using C