In C++ what type of header file changes would not cause either a linkage or run time

[BrilloPad]

Me understand programming plenty good!!!

How did you get that from what he said. Need error outputs.

Of course if you change the function PROTOTYPE, the IMPLEMENTATION needs to change. FFS. Nothing to see here.

Proper programming indeed. Are you always this quick off the mark?

No he works in a bank. And its types like that which makes banks so s**t and lose loads of money.....

[suityou01]

No he works in a bank. And its types like that which makes banks so s**t and lose loads of money.....

Ooh cool. I have seen those threads where people look in and post things like

<popcorn in the microwave, six pack in the fridge>

but never thought I would be "involved" in one.


My life gets a little bit richer.

BrilloPad - "types like that", love the passive aggressive language. Made I larf.

[VectraMan]

How did you get that from what he said. Need error outputs.

Because I'm a professional and know what I'm doing?

Of course if you change the function PROTOTYPE, the IMPLEMENTATION needs to change.

Actually he's changing the IMPLEMENTATION and PROTOTYPE (see I can use caps too), but asking what he can get away with in terms of not also changing the caller to match.

And no I don't work in a bank, and yes I am underpaid.

To be fair, this isn't proper programming, or programming at all. It's arsing about with often deficient tools and third party libraries that leads to having to know this sort of stuff.

[suityou01]

Because I'm a professional and know what I'm doing?



Actually he's changing the IMPLEMENTATION and PROTOTYPE (see I can use caps too), but asking what he can get away with in terms of not also changing the caller to match.

And no I don't work in a bank, and yes I am underpaid.

To be fair, this isn't proper programming, or programming at all. It's arsing about with often deficient tools and third party libraries that leads to having to know this sort of stuff.

No way you could have got that from the OP. Bored now.

[lightng]

Well thats another two minutes of my life I'll never get back. I'm off to do something much more interesting like paint a new sleeper for my z-gauge railway zzzZZZZ.

[BrilloPad]

Ooh cool. I have seen those threads where people look in and post things like

<popcorn in the microwave, six pack in the fridge>

but never thought I would be "involved" in one.


My life gets a little bit richer.

BrilloPad - "types like that", love the passive aggressive language. Made I larf.

I am pleased to have helped you along the way to true cuk enlightenment

BTW did I tell you about the really clever c++ coder who came from a pharacutical to the bank I worked at(TMI)? He thought that, because he was paid mnore he would get more complex coding to do and would be pushed more intellectually!!!

The only push he got was from an aggressive trader who asked why his delta was wrong and the coder had to explain to the trader that he was a numpty......

[d000hg]

Testing someone has real deep knowledge of particular skills isn't bad. Sometimes you want a real, full-on expert who knows the language/technologies inside out, rather than someone who has picked up enough to get by.

That said, there are many dumb interview questions out there; this may be one of them. Although, knowing how DLLs and linkers work isn't that esoteric, anyone who learned programming before the days of fancy IDEs should know this kind of subject and maybe that's the kind of person they want - a grizzled veteran

[Churchill]

Some of us can remember how overlay linkers work too... not something that's come in handy over the last 15 years though...

Bring back "Turbo Pascal" and "Turbo C"!!!

Btw, whatever happened to Philipe Kahn?

[expat]

Some of us can remember how overlay linkers work too... not something that's come in handy over the last 15 years though...

God yes: I remember having to decide which modules were dependent so that you always had the bits you needed loaded....

where's that dinosaur smiley?