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fay59 / Quirks of C.md
Last active January 23, 2024 04:24
Quirks of C

Here's a list of mildly interesting things about the C language that I learned mostly by consuming Clang's ASTs. Although surprises are getting sparser, I might continue to update this document over time.

There are many more mildly interesting features of C++, but the language is literally known for being weird, whereas C is usually considered smaller and simpler, so this is (almost) only about C.

1. Combined type and variable/field declaration, inside a struct scope [https://godbolt.org/g/Rh94Go]

struct foo {
   struct bar {
 int x;
@MichaelPote
MichaelPote / himawari.ps1
Created February 3, 2016 19:11
Windows Powershell Script to download the latest image from the Himawari-8 satelite, combine the tiles into a single image, convert to jpg and then set as the desktop background.
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# Himawari-8 Downloader
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# This script will scrape the latest image from the Himawari-8 satellite, recombining the tiled image,
# converting it to a JPG which is saved in My Pictures\Himawari\ and then set as the desktop background.
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# http://himawari8.nict.go.jp/himawari8-image.htm
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@siddMahen
siddMahen / prim.py
Created January 4, 2014 22:03
Prim's algorithm, in Python.
from sys import argv
import re
# open the file and get read to read data
file = open(argv[1], "r");
p = re.compile("\d+");
# initialize the graph
vertices, edges = map(int, p.findall(file.readline()))
graph = [[0]*vertices for _ in range(vertices)]