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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: pointer alignment when int != char *
Message-ID: <572@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Sat, 29-Aug-87 08:20:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: l.572
Posted: Sat Aug 29 08:20:04 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Aug-87 09:18:14 EDT
References: <493@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <6061@brl-smoke.ARPA> <3812@spool.WISC.EDU> <483@mtxinu.UUCP>
Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
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Summary: Another example of irresponsible restrictions on programming
Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:4031 comp.unix.wizards:3973

In article <483@mtxinu.UUCP>, ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) writes:
 
> It's also not legal in the proposed ANSI C standard.  Pointers
> may be subtracted *only* if they point to members of the same
> array of elements.  

The fact that some `gurus' cannot see the uses of this construct, as well
as others such as goto's, forcing inline, etc., is no more appropriate
than prohibiting the use of any tools developed since 1800 to sculptors.
You have no way of knowing how I can use the power of the machine; I may
very well find a new way of doing some things tomorrow that I do not see
today.  Let us remove unnecessary restrictions from the languages.

-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (ARPA or UUCP) or hrubin@purccvm.bitnet