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Re: Brain Teaser

by Abigail (Deacon)
on Jun 11, 2001 at 00:32 UTC ( [id://87355]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: Brain Teaser
in thread Brain Teaser

Eh, perhaps on *your* system, but look at this:
$ perl -le 'print \\///\\\//' 1.00000026558336981

What the result of \\///\\\// is depends on how memory is alloced. It'll depend on your malloc (which could be the Perl supplied, or the system one, depending on how Perl was build); it'll hand out addresses using some algorithm, based on various factors. Don't assume that when you run it once on your system, it will be the same universally.

-- Abigail

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Re: Re: Brain Teaser
by srawls (Friar) on Jun 11, 2001 at 00:36 UTC
    Well, I ran it on DOS and UNIX, and it worked. I was hoping that since the memory was allocated closely it would be below 1; oh well--nothing can be 100% portable : )

    The 15 year old, freshman programmer,
    Stephen Rawls

      One Unix isn't the other of course. The output I gave was run under a Unix as well. ;-)

      -- Abigail

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