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- From: Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 96 03:44:47 GMT
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- In article <dewar.829050467@schonberg> dewar@cs.nyu.edu "Robert Dewar" writes:
-
- > Kazimir quoted "Peter's FAQ" as saying:
- >
- > 1.3: If I write the code
- >
- > int i, j;
- >
- > can I assume that (&i + 1) == &j?
- >
- > A: Only sometimes. It's not portable, because in EBCDIC, i and j are
- > not adjacent.
- >
- >
- > I think a smiley is missing here. This is a nice joke, but one can only
- > hope that no one thinks that the EBCDIC comment is technically relevant.
-
- Yes, Kazimir did leave the attirbution a little hazy :-) Maybe he was
- assuming that everyone here would have lurked at least a week and a half in
- the newsgroup and thus would have read `Peter's FAQ' when it was posted on
- April 1st, with proper smileys, warnings, caveats etc.
-
- Of course, this isn't just going to comp.lang.c. But perhaps someone with
- a reasonable knowledge of C would have spotted the toungue-in-cheek ness?
-
- .splitbung
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