Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!olivea!tymix!cirrusl!sunstorm!dhesi From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Another sizeof question Message-ID: <2654@cirrusl.UUCP> Date: 5 Nov 90 19:30:31 GMT References: <13171@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <2638@cirrusl.UUCP> <1990Nov1.162942.3609@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: news@cirrusl.UUCP Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc. Lines: 16 >>I was a little surprised to discover that ANSI C tries to allow the >>preprocessor to be separately implementable, but it does not require it >>to be separately available. >Why the surprise? Because at the time that ANSI was in the middle of developing the standard, so far as I could tell, all existing substantially complete implementations of K&R's C provided a way of doing preprocessing only. (Actually, VAX/VMS was a near-exception, but then again, VAX/VMS is *always* a near-exception to *everything*.) -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi A pointer is not an address. It is a way of finding an address. -- me