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From: dan@gumby.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Lattice vs. Microsoft 3.0
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Date: Sun, 8-Sep-85 18:37:47 EDT
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> 
> There seems to be some kind of debate going on about whether C users will
> tolerate the performance loss to do pointer arithmetic correctly.  

No need for a debate.  Lattice has a compile-time switch that allows
you to choose how to do the pointer arithmetic:  Microsoft style, or
with full precision.

  -- Dan Frank