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From: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: C pointers in longs (was Re: looking for >32-bit address space)
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Date: 12 Apr 89 00:06:23 GMT
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	"The (d)pANS has nuked the notion that you can stuff pointers
	into objects of any particular integral type ..."

But an int must still accommodate the result of subtracting two
pointers into the same array, so, if you're going to permit arrays of
more than 2GB, you'll need wider ints.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!orca!frip!andrew)      [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]