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From: daveb@geac.UUCP (Brown)
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Subject: Re: pointer alignment when int != char *
Message-ID: <1414@geac.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Sep-87 17:27:35 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 19 17:27:35 1987
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Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown)
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In article <728@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> OK, who *does* permit "lseek" to use a magic cookie?  Certainly not the ANSI C
>> draft standard, as that doesn't contain any description of "lseek".
>
>Nobody official. Just a couple of implementations. I thought I remembered
>this was official, but of course what I was thinking of the standard IO
>library document's description of fseek. Sigh.
>

Just for information, the people who implemented it as a magic cookie
were the developers of GCOS and IBM/360 C...  Same people who wrote
the manual, the C compiler people at Bell Labs. Not official, but
eminently believable.

--dave (God's Chosen Operating System Lives!) c-b

ps:  I still remember #ifdef'd-out code in C/370 that was generated
code for a switch statement on the PDP-11.
-- 
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