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- From: linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Pointer/address reluctance
- Date: 17 Aug 1992 21:28:50 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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- From: clennox@vaxeline.ftp.com (Systems Anarchist)
- > You are perfectly free to redefine 'address' to mean 'pointer.'
-
- It's not a redefinition, as it is already used in the ANSI C standard
- with this meaning.
-
- There may well be archaic or unorthogonal hardware that defines "address"
- in some special, different, non-intuitive manner. The rest of computer
- science has known for some time that large, flat, byte-addressable address
- spaces are the way to go.
-
- This is not to criticize Steve who has clearly thought deeply about
- the matter, and come up with a paradigm that works for him. To me,
- the effort to avoid equating "address" and "pointer" is somewhat like
- trying to be more Catholic than the Pope. If the ANSI C std doesn't
- do it, why should anyone else?
-
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