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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: When is a cast not a cast?
Message-ID: <4216@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 17 May 89 20:18:02 GMT
References: <2747@buengc.BU.EDU> <10191@smoke.BRL.MIL> <406@skye.ed.ac.uk> <561@biar.UUCP>
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In article <561@biar.UUCP>, trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead) writes:
> Unfortunately, all the examples you provide depend on the various pointers
> pointing into a particular data structure.

Which is also true of pointer subtraction.

Personally, I'm against pointer addition until such time as a reasonable
type for the result can be found. It is not a pointer.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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