C is a general-purpose computer programming language used for operating systems, games, and other high performance work and is clearly distinct from C++. It was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie for use with the Unix operating system.
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Add to a variable multiple in cells variables
I have code that is used to add all cells of a tab to a var:
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Pseudoportable C script pattern
From time to time, while working with a command line in *nix family of operating systems, we have to write those scripts doing a rather specific task. Usually we use ...
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Guessing Game in C (help me) [on hold]
Write a C program that is randomly generates a number between 1 and 15,
and then the user is asked to guess that number. The game gives the user
three chances to guess before user loses.
In case the ...
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Segmentation fault in Trie ADT and help in search/insert [on hold]
I have a trie ADT which I think should work(atleast the insert). It inserted all the words at first, but after revisiting the code it produces a segmentation fault at "(!curr->index[charIndex])" on ...
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ARP implementation
I am a beginner in C and wrote this code to implement ARP.
3 threads are present - one to respond/receive any ARP packet targeted to me, one to refresh the ARP table on a periodic basis, and one to ...
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Inserting a parenthesized nickname
Given two strings, for example
s1 = "Valentino Rossi" (which may contain as many spaces between the 2 words as I like)
s2 = "Vale"
I have to create a function that requests these two ...
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Given a string, print another one without a given char
My aim is to write a C program (I must create a function) that, given a string and a character, returns another string without the given char value.
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2 ways to print a half-pyramid
I wrote this bit of C that prints a half-pyramid,
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Here's the main body:
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Initializing an EGL display
I'm somewhat new to writing real-world projects in C, so I'm not familiar with best practices and standards. I'm writing code dealing with EGL and OpenGL, and some setup calls might fail for reasons ...
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Simple pager in C
I have written a simple pager in C. It works fine for most things, but I'd like to know how it can be improved. Specific things I'm looking for are if there are size and/or speed improvements to be ...
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C: Where is my mistake trying to solve this simple riddle? [closed]
I'm trying to do a simple problem in C that goes like this:
Any integer P, such that 0 < P < N, splits this tape into two non-empty parts: A[0], A[1], ..., A[P − 1] and A[P], A[P + 1], ..., A[N ...
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Mergesort performance in C
I have two questions about my code:
Are there any performance improvements in this implementation or generally (register int ?) that I could make?
What could I ...
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Compare Two Files
One of the K&R exercises is to write a small piece of software to compare two files and print the first line in which they differ.
Here is my attempt:
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pthread_cond_wait() based multithreaded Linux daemon skeleton
I'm trying to design a multithreaded daemon for an industrial automation related project.
The daemon will be using a number of 3rd party libs like MQTT, mysql, etc..
My idea is to have worker threads ...
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Enforce exclusive order of four processes using semaphores
I am on the learning curve of C and its capabilities. Below I have tried to create 4 individual programs where the execution is always in order (program 0,1,2,3).
About the program
Program #0 is ...
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Word Counter Project
I recently read K&R The C Programming Language and wanted to write a small program to count the occurrence of each word in the input (std-input - I piped a file with all shakespeare pieces in ...
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Hash Map Library for any type (Void Pointers)
This is a hash map library for C that stores void* pointers with char* strings (null terminated) for keys
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Scoring and grading answers against an answer key
Intro
I won't lie this is for a university assignment (don't worry the code is in working order), and while I could hand it in as-is and receive full marks I feel like there is probably a more ...
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FIFO getch/ungetch Functions
I'm currently working myself through K&R and just read about implementing getch() and ungetch().
In K&R these ...
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Stack implemented using a single linked list
I am studying data structures and I have implemented a stack using a linked list.
stack.h
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Unity3D native iOS plug-in to read pedometer data
I've made a plug-in for Unity3d for iOS. The plug-in's job is to get the Pedometer data from history within a specified period of time and return that to Unity for later use. I am confident in my C# ...
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Machine independent C library for printing the binary representation of data types to stdout
I'm curious as to peoples thoughts on this small library I have made. I noticed there are no functions in the C standard library to accomplish this task.
I have tried to make the code machine ...
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All arithmetic operator functions (+, -, *, /, %) coded only using bitwise operators in C
Here's all the functions in C that does all the arithmetic operators without using arithmetic operators themselves, mostly using bitwise operators. Recursive functions and comparison operators are ...
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Simple singly linked list implementation in C
I have implemented a LinkedList with the ability to add, get elements from a particular position and ability to show all the elements in the array in to the console ...
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Function to wrap words in a text editor without breaking them
These are 3 functions I created in C language to read in a text file, remove the carriage returns from it in order to display on the screen, and display the file on screen wrapped with the words of ...
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Positive and negative FizzBuzz
I want to eliminate code duplication in my Fizz-Buzz like program. Any ideas?
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Slow prime finder
This program runs in about 1.65 seconds on a 1.65GHz dual core processor.
I compile it with:
gcc -Wall -o ./program ./program.c -lm
Are there any optimizations ...
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UNO for ncurses
I've been teaching myself C for the last few months. As a learning exercise, I set out to write an ncurses implementation of the classic card game Uno, mostly because it was was one of the simpler ...
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Program to tell which if any of three numbers is in the middle
I wrote this program, and it does what it asks, but it's so big and ugly. What can I change?
Some examples:
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Turning music into an image
I was bored, so I wrote something that could turn .wav files in to .bmps:
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C - Terminal Like Application with Pretty Limited Functionality
First of all, I will admit that this is a university project. I have submitted it but I am really interested in how I could make it more efficient or even cleaner. I don't expect anyone to actually go ...
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Server listening for program sockets
Essentially I have a server that will be listening for sockets in other programs seeking a connection:
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Fixed Point Number to String
I recently learned about using fixed point arithmetic on embedded systems without floating point hardware, so I decided to code it. I tried to write in good style, but emphasized speed over style.
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Celsius and Fahrenheit Converter
I'm very new to programming in C and I attempted to make a program that converts temperatures to and from Fahrenheit and Celsius. I have been running the program and I have realized that not all ...
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lut_atan() implementation to calculate atan() fast [closed]
To calculate atan() fast I've coded lut_atan() implementation. Can anyone help me to find out why I'm getting "not consecutive access" message from GCC?
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JSON C pull parser
Back in the day in addition to DOM and SAX parsers for XML another parser type was relatively popular -- pull parsers. Recently I was looking for a JSON parser and figured that most JSON C parsers are ...
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Printing a singly linked list with time complexity O(n) and space complexity O(sqrt(n)) [closed]
My aim is to write a method which prints contents of a singly linked list in reverse order with time complexity \$O(n)\$ and space complexity \$O(\sqrt{n})\$. The best I could come up with is to store ...
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A C function for returning the address of the calling function
Suppose you are given two functions, foo and bar, and neither of them are inlined. Now, if ...
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Video frame to Minecraft map colors
I'm still somewhat new to C, so pardon me for any silly mistakes I've made.
I'm trying to convert video frames into Minecraft map colors using JNI and ...
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Data structures in C (doubly linked list)
NOTE: Added corrections based on feedback. The DobLLRemoveNode function now works properly. It will stop if the given value is NULL and it will not set the tail to the head unless they are the same.
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Draw multiple objects
The OpenGL tutorial that I was following only used a single model to demonstrate various points. I wanted to draw more than one model. After some research, I came to the conclusion that I needed to ...
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Complete async OpenSSL example
I am trying to create a fully async example of a client and server using SSL.
I think these are the required assumptions:
Connecting may require socket readability and writeability notifications.
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Get radial distance between vector1 and vector2
A small script to calculate total units of distance between two vector entities. Especially useful in games and grid snaps, inventory snaps etc..
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Shortest path from U to V using at most k nodes
I'm trying to solve a problem that asks for a shortest path between two cities with at most k nodes.
The first line of input has the number of test cases. On the second line 3 integers are given, ...
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PWM wave generation
This code takes a integer x of range [0,127] as input, returns an array of four 32-bit integers, with x bits set.
I'm trying to ...
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Parsing an ini file
I have written a basic ini file parser in C. It won't support big ini files, and isn't very fast when fetching configuration values, but should be enough for small ones.
I couldn't find "proper" ...
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Optimize program to test for divisibility of numbers 3.0
This is a follow up on my previous question.
JS1's answer suggested that I should use a precomputed table containing all permutations of the lowest valid number for each number between 1 and MAX. It ...
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Read Log from external memory
I log records in external memory. Every record takes \$2\$ bytes. Now I need to read \$N\$ last records in chunks of \$18\$ bytes, so I did something like this.
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