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From: mjs@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Re: C's sins of commission
Message-ID: <8960017@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Oct 90 16:06:42 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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>>[...]						  But, addresses
>>aren't particularly important to me.  I almost never need to know
>>or manipulate them in any way.  So, why do I need a data type who's
>>values are addresses?
>
>    (a) Because, although *you* may not, *others* may, or may think
>	they do, or may simply prefer to think of things that way.

Count me in.  I write pretty low level code.  Dynamic linker/loaders, etc.
Darn tootin' I care about addresses.  Pretty useful when doing symbolic
relocation.

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Marc Sabatella (marc@hpmonk.fc.hp.com)
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