[Info-vax] ChatGPT solved it for me, again...

Slo slovuj at gmail.com
Fri Feb 17 06:58:50 EST 2023


Sorry Arne, I don't trust your coding skills and an ancient language :-)
Me: Convert this code to C
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <time.h>
int get_wattage(char *sys) {
    return (rand() % 20) * 50 + 200;
}
int main() {
    char sys1[256], sys2[256];
    int watt1, watt2;
    srand(time(NULL));
    printf("Utility to check power supply compatibility.\n");
    printf("Enter name of system #1: ");
    fgets(sys1, 256, stdin);
    printf("Enter name of system #2: ");
    fgets(sys2, 256, stdin);
    sys1[strcspn(sys1, "\n")] = '\0';
    sys2[strcspn(sys2, "\n")] = '\0';
    watt1 = get_wattage(sys1);
    watt2 = get_wattage(sys2);
    if (watt1 == watt2) {
        printf("%s and %s can use the same power supply (%d watt)\n", sys1, sys2, watt1);
    } else {
        printf("%s and %s cannot use the same power supply as they use %d and %d watt\n", sys1, sys2, watt1, watt2);
    }
    return 0;
}
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I did not test it. It also gave these comments:

Note that the pstr type from the original Pascal code has been replaced with C-style strings 
(null-terminated arrays of characters), and the random function has been replaced with the 
rand function from the C standard library. The clock function from the original Pascal code 
has been replaced with the time function from the C standard library to seed the random 
number generator. The trunc function from Pascal has not been used in the C code, as C 
automatically truncates floating-point values when they are cast to integers.



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