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Subject: Re: pointer size (Was: Re: "void **" : Is it valid and what does it mean?)
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Date: 31 May 91 07:13:47 GMT
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In a recent posting Joseph Toth (toth@tellabs.com) wrote:

> On a single machine, the size of the pointer is based upon the
> addressable range of memory, and is always the same _size_.

This is not true.  I work in C on a large number of machines, and
one of them has two different pointer sizes (32 and 48 bits).
These access addressable memory in different ways.  

                    -- Owen