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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Whose code should we break? ( was Re: 64 bit C )
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.050331.6442@kithrup.COM>
Date: 20 Feb 91 05:03:31 GMT
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In article <65527@brunix.UUCP> cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>Well, this has aroused some comment; I shouldn't have said "portably."  I
>should have said "portably to anywhere I know about."  Does anyone know of
>a modern machine on which (char *)((unsigned long)("Yow")+1) is not "ow"?
>(Forgetting word-addressed machines, like Crays.)  This is a serious
>question, not rhetorical.

Pr1me's, Cybers (180 state, that is), '386s in large model (i.e., multiple
segments), possibly some of hp's risc machines.

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