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From: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Pointers as 3-tuples
Message-ID: <383:Apr1221:07:1890@stealth.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 90 21:07:18 GMT
References: <20079@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> <14330@lambda.UUCP>
Reply-To: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
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X-Original-Subject: Re: JLG's flogging of horses

In article <14330@lambda.UUCP> jlg@lambda.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:
> I want pointers to behave as addresses
> within the linear address space presented to the user by the system.

Ugh. I want pointers to behave as addresses within particular objects,
like ANSI says they do. I don't care about the arrangement of those
objects within memory; why do you? (Leave device drivers aside for this
discussion; they're neither portable nor meant to be portable.)

---Dan