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- From: pat@frumious.uucp (Patrick Smith)
- Subject: Re: Zero-length structures and pointer comparisons
- Message-ID: <BzDJHu.t2@frumious.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:51:29 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec12.154918.2220@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <1992Dec14.225659.24225@microsoft.com> <1992Dec16.150144.6004@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- maxtal@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (John MAX Skaller) writes:
- | I'm not yet convinced it need bear ANY relation to
- | ==, !=, < etc on pointers.
-
- ["it" == ptrcmp]
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-
- Surely one would want to insist on
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- p == q => ptrcmp(p,q) == 0
-
- If this weren't true, one wouldn't be able to use ptrcmp as a basis
- for organizing an ordered binary tree for searching. Are there any
- likely-to-be-common uses of ptrcmp which don't need this assumption?
-
- Unfortunately, meeting this condition might be expensive on
- segmented architectures (according to the many other postings
- on this subject).
-
-
- The converse,
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- ptrcmp(p,q) == 0 => p == q
-
- seems not quite as essential, but still very useful. Can anyone
- describe an otherwise reasonable implementation of ptrcmp which
- would _not_ meet this condition? If not, what's the harm in
- asking for it?
-
- --
- Patrick Smith
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