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From: miller@saturn.UUCP (Terrence C. Miller)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: pointer -> long conversion
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Date: Tue, 10-Jul-84 20:40:37 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 10 20:40:37 1984
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The ANSI standard (the last I time looked) defined pointer comparison to
be unsigned, and I suspect most of us regard memory addresses as unsigned.
Thus pointers should be extended like unsigned numbers (i.e zero filled).