Re: some unanswered questions on C

From: Antoine Mathys (Antoine_DOT_Mathys_at_unifr_DOT_ch)
Date: 06/20/03 

Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 00:11:15 +0200

> actually i am writing an assembler for 8051 microcontroller and for it
> i have to first finish my ground work by writing all my text procesing
> functions for macro substitution and line splicing etc...

No disrespect here,

<advice>
Do one step at a time, the first one being to read (with the exercises)
a good textbook on C. A random example : Kernighan W. and Ritchie M.,
The C Programming Language, second edition.

Read at least read chap. 5 on pointers and array, if not the whole thing.
</advice>

A.M.

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