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From: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Does ANSI C have lengthof() ?
Message-ID: <1273@mhres.mh.nl>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 17:20:18 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  4 17:20:18 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Sep-87 02:10:23 EDT
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In article <6404@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>People should STOP trying to do integer arithmetic with what are
>nominally pointer values -- it is most unlikely to be portable,
>and practically all portable uses do not require such kludgery!

I agree -- but there are cases where this kind of arithmetic is
unavoidable, e.g. the relocation of a disk-image of a program to a memory
image. But maybe you are right - including provisions in the compiler or
the pre-processor to make it easy to write non-portable programs should be
avoided. 
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