Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "Numerical Recipes in C" is nonportable code
Message-ID: <1527@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 17 Sep 88 15:58:24 GMT
References: <867@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <3200@geac.UUCP> <1430@ficc.uu.net> <1988Sep15.145026.20325@ateng.uucp>
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In article <1988Sep15.145026.20325@ateng.uucp>, chip@ateng.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> According to peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva):
> >But nobody says you have to load the selector into a selector register
> >just to compute an address.

> More to the point:  The dpANS says you (the implementor) are _allowed_ to
> load the selector into a selector register when computing the address.  To
> do otherwise could slow down register-intensive pointer manipulation.

OK, then, I withdraw my objection to the original message. Since
there is no portable method of declaring non-zero-based arrays in 'C',
and since the code generation task for using such is trivial, they should
be added.
-- 
Peter da Silva  `-_-'  Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
"Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?"            peter@ficc.uu.net