Week 8 / C Input

Question 1

variadic function

Answer 1

can take in as many arguments as you need
ex: printf()

Question 2

int main( int argc, char * argv[] )

Answer 2

argc = number of command line arguments *including the name of the program

argv[0] = name of the program, no limit

Question 3

formatted text files

Answer 3

a bunch of text characters that are considered human-readable (like a word doc)

Question 4

binary files

Answer 4

contains data in raw state, ex: integer 246813579 is saved as 4-byte chunk of binary digits

Question 5

testing

Answer 5

opportunity to find errors when they are introduced; cannot prove absence of defects

Question 6

driver

Answer 6

calls appropriate functions to test functionality of code being tested

Question 7

stubs

Answer 7

piece of code that stands in for another piece of code, usually has hard-coded return values