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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Another silly question
Message-ID: <10286@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 18 May 89 02:31:58 GMT
References: <17812@cup.portal.com> <2336@Portia.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2336@Portia.Stanford.EDU> mesmo@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Chris Johnson) writes:
-	When "+" denotes simple (ie int/float/etc) arithmetic, the
-	operation commutes; when it denotes pointer arithmetic,
-	commutation is not legal/meaningful.
-	The statement that *(a+i) == *(i+a) is therefore invalid.

100% wrong!  If you don't know C any better than that, you should avoid
causing confusion and refrain from posting such misinformation.