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Dik T. Winter wrote:
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> It is (if I remember right) not e biblical reference, but a
> reference to this newsgroup: Dan Pop.

Speaking of whom, has anyone heard anything about him in the past
year or so? We miss his knowledge and diplomatic tone. (1/2 of
that is sarcastic).

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In article <>,
Keith Thompson <kst-> wrote:
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>I'm reasonably sure the phrase "chapter and verse" originally referred
>(and still does) to biblical references. The Bible is divided into
>"books", each books is divided into chapters, each chapter is divided
>into verses. "John 3:16", for example, refers to the book of John,
>chapter 3, verse 16.

Yes, very true.

>The extension of the phrase to section/paragraph references in the C
>standard is commonplace and fairly obvious. According to the Google
>archives, the earliest use of the phrase in comp.lang.c was by Henry
>Spencer on December 4, 1986 (referring to K&R1, which was the closest
>thing we had to a standard at the time).

Yes, very true.

>(Kenny is wrong as usual.)

ITYM:

"Dik T. Winter" is wrong thie time. But we all have our off-days.

HTH, HAND.

Dik T. Winter said:

> ["Chapter and verse"] is (if I remember right) not e biblical reference,

Clearly its origins are Biblical (or rather, suprabiblical, since chapter
and verse divisions were not added to the Bible until roughly 1200AD +/- a
century or so), but equally clearly it is a widely understood expression. I
am quite certain (although I cannot prove) that I was familiar with the
expression in its wider sense long before I got onto the Net.

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On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:39:15 GMT, in comp.lang.c , Keith Thompson
<kst-> wrote:

>I'm reasonably sure the phrase "chapter and verse" originally referred
>(and still does) to biblical references.

Sure did. But, trolls commnets notwithstanding, as I'm sure youre
aware C&V is common english usage for a precise reference to an
accepted text. Its use is far from restricted to CLC - see meaning 1
below for example.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/chapter+and+verse

>(Kenny is wrong as usual.)

Return to type then...
Mark McIntyre
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Kies Lee wrote:
>
> I am a beginner in c programming. Now I have a question:
> [code]
> main() {
> int i = 3;
> int j;
> }
> Compile it to a.out.
> Where the 'i','j' be in the a.out, the bss section,
> date section, or in the stack?

The objects i and j themselves, won't be in a.out.
The instructions for creating the objects i and j,
will be in a.out.

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pete