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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!world!ksr!jfw
  2. From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: Pointer/address reluctance
  5. Message-ID: <14980@ksr.com>
  6. Date: 20 Aug 92 11:32:25 EDT
  7. References: <l8ojbqINN900@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1992Aug17.155553.19704@vaxeline.ftp.com> <l906giINN4rl@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1992Aug18.165251.9813@dg-rtp.dg.com> <l92qdfINNfkn@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
  8. Sender: news@ksr.com
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  11. linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes:
  12. >It defines an address constant.  You can't have a <baz> constant unless 
  13. >you have <baz>, now can you?  Also check out line 35 in the same section,
  14. >which refers to "the address & and indirection * unary operators".
  15. >No, the concept of "address" is in the standard, so it seems somewhat
  16. >tendentious to shun it.
  17.  
  18. No, the *word* "address" is in the standard; absolutely nothing in the standard
  19. mandates that pointers be represented by anything like an "address", and anyone
  20. whose code unnecessarily depends on it being so almost certainly deserves to be
  21. fired in disgrace.
  22.