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- From: linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Pointer/address reluctance
- Date: 13 Aug 1992 14:46:34 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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- Can anyone explain the reluctance that some of the experts here
- have in equating "pointer" with "address"?
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- The ANSI C standard displays no such inhibition, e.g. Section 3.4
- line 32 mentions "An address constant is a pointer to ..."
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