ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) (04/05/85)
The article below got a detailed looking over since it dropped into our "junk" directory--as it turns out, that happened since it took over 14 days to arrive. The question: how did the expected Organization: Ballistic Research Lab line get turned into the Organization: Hewlett-Packard line that actually appears? (This presumably happened at an "hp..." site.) > Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site elsie.UUCP > Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site brl-tgr.UUCP > Path: elsie!cvl!umcp-cs!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hpisla!hplvla!brl-tgr!gwyn > From: gwyn@brl-tgr.UUCP (gwyn) > Newsgroups: net.lang.c > Subject: Re: Re: Re: parens around sizeof arg > Message-ID: <9544@brl-tgr.UUCP> > Date: 21 Mar 85 07:48:00 GMT > Date-Received: 5 Apr 85 00:34:02 GMT > References: <317@gumby.UUCP> > Organization: Hewlett-Packard > Lines: 4 > > Most C programmers I have encountered who use redundant parentheses > in return and sizeof expressions turned out not to be aware that > they were unnecessary. If they are aware but nonetheless think that > readability is improved, more power to them. -- Bethesda Research Labs surely has some legal claim on BRL. Gumby is a trademark of somebody or other. -- UUCP: ..decvax!seismo!elsie!ado ARPA: elsie!ado@seismo.ARPA DEC, VAX and Elsie are Digital Equipment and Borden trademarks
tw@hpisla.UUCP (Tw Cook) (04/16/85)
The problem evidently occurred at the notesfiles -> news gateway on hpisla;
for some reason it decided that this article originated on an hp system (by
matching the first 2 characters against "hp"!) and sent it out; since there
was no organization present, it generated the default, which is
"Hewlett-Packard". I've pored over the code several times, and have tried
to reproduce the problem, but I don't have a clue what happened. Sigh.
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