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From: dsill@NSWC-OAS.arpa (Dave Sill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C machine
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Date: 22 Jan 88 13:17:04 GMT
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In article <155@ateng.UUCP> Chip Salzenburg <ateng!chip> writes:
>In the beginning, gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) wrote:
>>First, only pointers into the same object can meaningfully be subtracted.
>>Second, the result of the subtraction necessarily has implementation-
>>defined signed integral type; there is a typedef ptrdiff_t in <stddef.h>.
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>But Doug did not mention whether ptrdiff_t is a signed or unsigned type.
>Or is this not specified in dpANS?  When will I stop asking rhetorical
>questions? :-)

Perhaps when you start reading the articles you quote. :-)

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