Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!ncrcan!hcr!stacey
From: stacey@hcr.UUCP (Stacey Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: When it is amoral... (Re: When is a cast not a cast?)
Message-ID: <593@hcr.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 19:37:14 GMT
References: <2765@buengc.BU.EDU> <563@lzaz.ATT.COM> <4093@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: stacey@hcrvax.UUCP (Stacey Campbell)
Organization: HCR Corporation, Toronto
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In article <4093@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.UUCP writes:
>In article <563@lzaz.ATT.COM>, hutch@lzaz.ATT.COM (R.HUTCHISON) writes:
>> 	midpoint_pointer = (start_pointer + end_pointer) / 2;
>
>You're right. It's a valid operation.
>
>(what's the average of the 7 clubs and the 9 clubs?)

Que?

On a segmented architecture p1 + p2 blows up badly.

How about;

	mid = start + (end - start) / 2;
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Stacey Campbell, HCR Corporation, {lsuc,utzoo,utcsri}!hcr!stacey