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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Adding two pointers
Message-ID: <4096@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 7 May 89 02:57:12 GMT
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In article <922@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu>, mcdaniel@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (Tim McDaniel) writes:
> In this article, ...  I show that Peter de Silva's card
> analogy is misleading.

It's just an analogy. But you do seem to misunderstand it.

"two of clubs" is a pointer. It's the second element in an object based at the
address "clubs". Pointer arithmetic between objects is meaningless.
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Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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