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Practical C Programming

Errata for Practical C Programming, Third Edition

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Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
Printed
Page 251
Example 15-8 code

The example code (as downloaded from O'Reilly: ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/published/oreilly/nutshell/practical_c3/examples.tar) still does not work correctly. The program will not find the numbers 6 and 991 (the second and next-to-last elements in the array).

Note from the Author or Editor:
Reader is correct. Good catch. Change

if (low >= high)

to

if (low > high)

 Anonymous  Dec 29, 2009 
Printed
Page 253
Last paragraph

The sentence:

"How do we force the debugger to stop only when part_number == 735?" should read "... only when point_number == 735?" (part_number changed to point_number).

Note from the Author or Editor:
part_number should be "point_number". (not the other way round).

 Anonymous  Dec 29, 2009 
Printed
Page 291
First code snippet

First code snippet reads has a typo. The variable new_ptr should be new_item_ptr based on related examples in the book.

Incorrect line:

insert_ptr->previous_ptr->next_ptr = new_ptr

Corrected line:

insert_ptr->previous_ptr->next_ptr = new_item_ptr

Note from the Author or Editor:
Reader is correct.

 Anonymous  Dec 31, 2009