Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!bbn!husc6!panda!teddy!jpn
From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: pointer checking
Keywords: 16 bits vs 32 bits
Message-ID: <4626@teddy.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 88 17:39:23 GMT
References: <228@gandalf.littlei.UUCP>
Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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In article <228@gandalf.littlei.UUCP> martin@littlei.UUCP (martin) writes:
>I do not want to start another net wars, but I am tired of seeing
>people write programs that are non-portable between C compilers.

Please, people, DON'T followup to this.  This subject was hashed
to death in comp.lang.c.  The construct cited in the article
" if (ptr) { do something }". is both valid and 100% portable, at least
according to both Kernigan and Richie, and the proposed ANSI standard.
Perhaps Martin has a buggy compiler that will not accept this construct,
but all correct C compilers handle it as written.