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From: mwp@ubeaut.oz.au (Michael Paddon)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: &&**
Message-ID: <242@ubeaut.oz.au>
Date: 20 Sep 90 02:16:17 GMT
References: <165@thor.UUCP>
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Melbourne, Australia
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From article <165@thor.UUCP>, by scjones@thor.UUCP (Larry Jones):
> It's a very easy mistake to make.  Since both &* and *& are
> essentially noops,

Beware that this is not the case on some architectures. A case in point
is the NCR 32/850 where a location can have two addresses, one in
local memory and one in multibus address space.

You wouldn't believe the grief this can cause...

					Michael

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