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From: awylie@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk
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Subject: Re: The Name of C
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Date: 11 Jan 88 12:39:00 GMT
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Nf-From: pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk!awylie    Jan 11 12:39:00 1988


Your explanation of pointers being shifted is wrong - this implies not
that the pointers are on 4-byte boundaries, but that anything they can
point to must have this alignment. How then do you handle arrays of
chars (bytes)?

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