Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!tuvie!rcvie
From: rcvie@tuvie (ELIN Forsch.z.)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Possible extension to C??
Message-ID: <553@tuvie>
Date: 11 Jan 88 10:01:43 GMT
References: <3306@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: rcvie@tuvie.UUCP (Alcatel-ELIN Forsch.z.)
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Lines: 8
Keywords: *0==0
Summary: It *WILL* break code !!!!

To force a program to handle *0 as 0 will break code! There are a lot of
processors where *0 is a meaningful address. When using Intel's 8086 e.g.
*0 is the address of an interrupt vector whose change may be very very
meaningful especially to an o.s. programmer. Therefore the implicit change
of *0 to 0 is a rather bad habbit of some C compilers.

			Dipl.Ing. Dietmar Weickert
			ALCATEL-ELIN Research Center, Vienna, Austria.