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From: diamond@diamond.csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Another silly question
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Date: 20 May 89 05:13:53 GMT
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In article <749@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:

>Can you explain why compilers produce different code for "a[i]" and "*(a+i)"?
>Thanks.

Hear, hear.  Yes, there are a lot of broken implementations, and there
are a lot more implementations which are not broken but just wierd.
Yes, this is one of the ways in which many implementations are wierd,
and I also wonder why.  Anyone have any ideas?

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