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From: john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,news.software.b
Subject: Re: passing NULL to functions
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Date: Fri, 1-May-87 10:29:04 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  1 10:29:04 1987
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In article <258@homxb.UUCP> gemini@homxb.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes:
>In article <1129@ius2.cs.cmu.edu>, edw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu.UUCP writes:
>> Not that I doubt you, but could you show me
>> where you benifit or need pointers of different size?
>
>Medium model on an 80x8x family (arch flames to /dev/null), where pointers
>to functions are 32 bits, but pointers to data are 16 bits, to name one
>example.

I believe the Honeywell GPS-45 series systems have chararacter pointers that
are 6 bytes in length while pointers to other objects are 4 bytes.  

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