Format fixes in html files from 2018
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@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ One line, one array, one loop and one statement but it prints many bytes. It won
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Feed this anything on `stdin`.
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The [included script.sh](%%REPO_URL%%/2018/burton1/scripthd.sh) may be used as a driver program for this entry.
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The included [scripthd.sh](%%REPO_URL%%/2018/burton1/scripthd.sh) may be used as a driver program for this entry.
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It adds several nice-to-have features, and allows salt-to-taste customizability.
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This code has been compiled and tested on:
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@@ -227,15 +227,12 @@ It pre-dates `varargs.h`, and assembly was the only way to gain access to the
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variable argument types. The first edition _The C Programming Language_, 1978,
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page 71, remarks:
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```
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By the way, there is no entirely satisfactory way to write a portable function
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that accepts a variable number of arguments, because there is no portable way
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for the called function to determine how many arguments where actually passed
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to it in a given call.
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...
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`printf`, the most common C function with a variable number of arguments,
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... is also non-portable and must be modified for different environments.
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```
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> By the way, there is no entirely satisfactory way to write a portable function
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that accepts a variable number of arguments, because there is no portable way
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for the called function to determine how many arguments where actually passed to
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it in a given call. ... `printf`, the most common C function with a variable
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number of arguments, ... is also non-portable and must be modified for different
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environments.
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It is fascinating to explore the roots of C through the history of the operating
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system it was birthed within. C is often criticized as a difficult, inscrutable
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