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22-Jan-20 6:41

out of a codeproject mug

thanks Chris and team. Smile | :)

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Sean Ewington22-Jan-20 6:55

Sean Ewington

22-Jan-20 6:55

Congratulations once again Smile | :)

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
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honey the codewitch22-Jan-20 7:08

22-Jan-20 7:08

i don't know what voodoo you used to make this mug work so well, but thank you.

i got it this morning right in time for a cup, and it was magic ever since. Big Grin | :-D

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Jalapeno Bob22-Jan-20 8:25

Jalapeno Bob

22-Jan-20 8:25

when brewed by someone you love....

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Jörgen Andersson22-Jan-20 9:37

Jörgen Andersson

22-Jan-20 9:37

I always make my own coffee. $Shucks | :-\$

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dandy7222-Jan-20 10:48

dandy72

22-Jan-20 10:48

So doesn't that qualify? Smile | :)

honey the codewitch22-Jan-20 10:54

22-Jan-20 10:54

Awww, you love yourself.

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Daniel Pfeffer22-Jan-20 20:00

Daniel Pfeffer

22-Jan-20 20:00

Jalapeno Bob wrote:
When brewed by someone you love.

Jörgen Andersson wrote:
I always make my own coffee.

Those who fall in love with themselves will have no rivals. Smile | :)

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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dandy7223-Jan-20 5:49

dandy72

23-Jan-20 5:49

Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
Those who fall in love with themselves will have no rivals.

...and they'll always have a partner...

kalberts23-Jan-20 8:31

kalberts

23-Jan-20 8:31

Did you ever read the story of Onan in the black book? Smile | :)

Sidetracking:

Now that I have brought up Onan... He it the most misunderstood character in the entire bible. His sin was that he refused to copulate with his sister-in-law after his older brother was dead before generating offspring.

The "official" argument he gave against it that he wanted his kids to be counted as his own, not as kids of his dead brother. (The tradition said that Tamar's first child should be counted as the child of Er, the dead brother, no matter who was the biological father.) Between the lines, we can read that Tamar was an immature child bride - years later she ended up as the wife of Shelah, the younger brother of Onan and Er, still a boy when Onan was "sinning" by not going to bed with his sister-in-law. In those days, a husband was always older than the wife, so it it obvious that Tamar was even younger than the immature Shelah. That explains why the oldest brother, Er, didn't succeed in having a child with Tamar before he died, and it gives a believable explanation why Onan refused to deposit his seed in her.

So, Onan should be praised as a hero, fighting against the use of child brides, rather than as the epitome of the sin of wasting your seed on activities that cannot contribute to making girls pregnant.

dandy7224-Jan-20 3:49

dandy72

24-Jan-20 3:49

All of this went over my head, except perhaps for:

Member 7989122 wrote:
the epitome of the sin of wasting your seed on activities that cannot contribute to making girls pregnant.

...and now I have Monty Python's Every Sperm is Sacred stuck in my head. How far am I from the point to all this...? Smile | :)

Is main() a callback function?

Ravi Bhavnani22-Jan-20 12:35

Ravi Bhavnani

22-Jan-20 12:35

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Rob Philpott22-Jan-20 5:00

Rob Philpott

22-Jan-20 5:00

I can't make up my mind.

Regards,
Rob Philpott.

Rick York22-Jan-20 5:11

22-Jan-20 5:11

Yes, it is, and it's not re-entrant.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

Rob Philpott22-Jan-20 5:27

Rob Philpott

22-Jan-20 5:27

Interesting, I didn't know/have forgotten about the re-entrancy.

Seems you can do it in C#, but that's with a capital 'M'ain, and is a language for wimps.

Regards,
Rob Philpott.

Rick York22-Jan-20 5:35

22-Jan-20 5:35

I couldn't agree more.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

Rick York22-Jan-20 5:41

22-Jan-20 5:41

The non-re-entrancy part comes about because you can't call it yourself. It's not a callback in the strict sense of the term but in effect it is if you think of it as the designated function for the OS to call to run the program. It is not specified in code (this is why it fails the strict definition) but it is implicitly known to the linker and can be overridden. In the case of programs for Windows, it IS overridden to be WinMain.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

Richard MacCutchan22-Jan-20 6:13

Richard MacCutchan

22-Jan-20 6:13

Rick York wrote:
you can't call it yourself.

Indeed you can, but you need to know what you are doing.

Rick York wrote:
but it is implicitly known to the linker

Not quite, there is a reference to it in the run time libraries which must be satisfied at link time.

Rick York wrote:
in the case of programs for Windows, it IS overridden to be WinMain.

But there is a main() inside the Windows libraries, which again gets called by the run time (unless it has changed in the last 20+ years). And that then calls in to WinMain.

Rick York22-Jan-20 8:10

22-Jan-20 8:10

Actually things are a little different. In the Visual Studio source, VC/Tools/MSVC/**version**/crt/src/vcruntime/vcstartup_internal.h has the prototypes and the calls are in exe_common.inl. WinMain and main are two different calls along with their wide character versions.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

Richard MacCutchan22-Jan-20 22:01

Richard MacCutchan

22-Jan-20 22:01

I suspected this might be the case, but I have not had access to the source for a number of years.

Rick York23-Jan-20 4:49

23-Jan-20 4:49

There were only minor changes. For the most part, what you wrote is correct.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

Gary Wheeler22-Jan-20 5:43

Gary Wheeler

22-Jan-20 5:43

Rob Philpott wrote:
C# ... is a language for wimps

To quote my elderly cat, "Fight me, bitch."

Software Zen: delete this;

Rob Philpott22-Jan-20 5:50

Rob Philpott

22-Jan-20 5:50

It's how I express my intent daily to my ungrateful computer - I'm hooked, but its still the kid's soft play of computer languages. Big Grin | :-D

Regards,
Rob Philpott.

honey the codewitch22-Jan-20 6:23

22-Jan-20 6:23

C is for wimps

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