CLA-11-03 Exam Dumps : CLA - C Certified Associate Programmer

The main function declares an integer i and initializes it to 1. Then, it enters a for loop with no initialization statement, a condition i > 128, and an iteration expression i *= 2. The loop will continue to execute as long as i is greater than 128, but since i starts at 1, the loop's condition is false right from the start, meaning the loop body never executes.

However, this looks like an oversight, because usually, with this kind of loop, the intention is to run the loop until the condition becomes false. If the condition were i < 128, i would double each iteration until it reached or exceeded 128.

Given the current condition i > 128, the loop does nothing, and printf will output the ini-tial value of i, which is 1.

The for loop in the program is initialized with i (which is 0), has the condition 1 (which is always true), and increments i in each iteration. Since the loop con-dition is always true, the loop will continue indefinitely, and i will keep incre-menting. The program will not reach the printf statement, and it will be stuck in an infinite loop.

•The program defines a global variable i and assigns it the value 0.

•The program defines a main function that takes two parameters: argc and argv.

•The program uses a for loop to increment the value of i as long as the condi-tion 1 is true, which is always the case.

•The program never exits the for loop, so it never reaches the printf function or the return statement.

•The program keeps running indefinitely, consuming CPU resources and memory. This is an example of a logical error in the program.

The program outputs 3 because the expression p[2] - p[-1] evaluates to 3 using the pointer arithmetic rules in C. The pointer t points to the first element of the string literal "abcdefgh", which is stored in a read-only memory location. The pointer p is initialized to t + 2, which means it points to the third element of the string, which is 'c'. Then, p is incremented twice, so it points to the fifth ele-ment of the string, which is 'e'. The subscript operator [] is equivalent to adding an offset to the pointer and dereferencing it, so p[2] is the same as *(p + 2), which is 'g', and p[-1] is the same as *(p - 1), which is 'd'. The printf function then prints the difference between the ASCII values of 'g' and 'd', which is 103 - 100 = 3, as a decimal integer using the %d format specifier.

References = CLA – C Certified Associate Programmer Certification, C Essentials 2 - (Intermediate), C Pointers, C Strings