education/software development/ECE1400/(not) Chapter 11 Exercises.md

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-1. Suppose that the following declarations are in effect:....
-	a. `14`
-	b. `34`
-	c. `4`
-	d. `true`
-	e. `false`
-
-2. Suppose that `high`, `low`, and `middle` are all pointer variables of the same type, and the `low` and `high` point to elements of an array. Why is the following statement illegal, and how could it be fixed?
-```c
-middle = (low + high) / 2
-```
-The above statement is illegal because you can't add an `int *` to an `int *`. The below operation is legal because you can perform pointer subtraction, and because `low` is defined on the left hand side of the equation, then adding a long to a pointer is valid.
-```c
-middle = low + (high - low) / 2;
-```
-
-3. What will be the contents of the `a` array after the following statements are executed?
-```c
-{10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1}
-```

education/software development/ECE1400/Chapter 11 Exercises.md

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-> 1. If `i` is a variable and `p` points to `i`, which of the following expressions are aliases for `i`?
+1. Suppose that the following declarations are in effect:....
-
+	a. `14`
-a. `*p`
+	b. `34`
-g. `*&i`
+	c. `4`
-
+	d. `true`
-> 2. If `i` is an `int` variable and `p` and `q` are pointers to `int`, which of the following assignments are legal?
+	e. `false`
-
-e. `p = *&q;`
-f. `p = q;`
-i. `*p = *q`
-
-> 3. The following function supposedly computes the sum and average of the numbers in the array `a`, which has length `n`. `avg` and `sum` point to the variables that the function should modify, unfortunately the function contains several errors, find and correct them.
 
+2. Suppose that `high`, `low`, and `middle` are all pointer variables of the same type, and the `low` and `high` point to elements of an array. Why is the following statement illegal, and how could it be fixed?
 ```c
-void avg_sum(double a[], int n, double *avg, double *sum)
+middle = (low + high) / 2
-{
+```
-int i;
+The above statement is illegal because you can't add an `int *` to an `int *`. The below operation is legal because you can perform pointer subtraction, and because `low` is defined on the left hand side of the equation, then adding a long to a pointer is valid.
+```c
+middle = low + (high - low) / 2;
+```
 
-// This was assigning a pointer to a float,
+3. What will be the contents of the `a` array after the following statements are executed?
-// the dereference operator was missing
+```c
-*sum = 0.0;
+{10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1}
-for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
-	// This wasn't increasing the value
-	// `sum` points to, it was modifying the address stored in the pointer
-	(*sum) += a[i];
-// Missing dereference operators
-*avg = *sum / n;
-
-}
 ```