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- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!jimad
- From: jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock)
- Subject: Re: Zero-length structures and pointer comparisons
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.233748.12815@microsoft.com>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 23:37:48 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec8.103218.27689@lth.se> <9234423.15066@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <KANZE.92Dec10174617@slsvdnt.us-es.sel.de>
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- In article <KANZE.92Dec10174617@slsvdnt.us-es.sel.de> kanze@us-es.sel.de (James Kanze) writes:
- | int cmp = memcmp( &ptr1 , &ptr2 , sizeof( void* ) ) ;
- |
- |This works on all implementations I can think of. Is it guaranteed?
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- Also, Cray uses very different pointer implementations for char* verses
- other types of pointers, since the natural address granularity on the Cray
- is too large to make a good char*. Thus sizeof(char*) != sizeof(int*)
- for example. [I don't know what sizeof(void*) would compare to -- char*
- or int*]
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