A few typoes in recent FAQ
Steve Summit
scs at adam.mit.edu
Sat Nov 3 10:12:00 AEST 1990
In article <1990Nov1.050635.14431 at athena.mit.edu> I once again
typed in too many changes without proofreading them carefully
enough, so now I have to beg your forgiveness while pointing out
that
>A: When structures are passed as arguments to functions, the entire
> struct is typically pushed on the stack, using as many words as are
> required. (Pointers to functions are often chosen precisely to
> avoid this overhead.)
should, of course, really say "...Pointers to structures are
often chosen...". Thanks to Chris Torek for pointing this out.
Another, more minor one, which I wouldn't mention if I didn't
have to correct the above, is in
> because syntax errors would result if it were invoked (apparently as
> a single statement, but with a resultant an extra semicolon) as the
which should obviously say something like "but with a resultant
extra semicolon."
Sorry for any confusion.
Steve Summit
scs at adam.mit.edu
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