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From: alex@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Alex S. Crain)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: C machine
Message-ID: <708@umbc3.UMD.EDU>
Date: 15 Jan 88 20:16:51 GMT
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In article <7092@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <39aca826.7f32@apollo.uucp> johnf@apollo.uucp (John Francis) writes:
>>The result of subtracting two pointers is *defined* (K&R) to yield
>>a result of type int.
>
>That's another of the things that ANSI C intends to fix.


Fix? How pray tell would you fix it? make it machine dependent? or just
arbitrary? 

	Pick one:

	Pntr - Pntr -> int
	Pntr - Pntr -> long int
	Pntr - Pntr -> Pntr      (This looks interesting ....)
	Pntr - Pntr -> NewAnsiTypeOfDuboiusValueFirstImplementedByBorland
	Pntr - Pntr -> ????

-- 
					:alex.

alex@umbc3.umd.edu