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  1. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!canrem!telly!druid!darcy
  3. From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
  4. Subject: Re: Why should POINTERS be so damn hard to understand ?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug30.190737.3979@druid.uucp>
  6. Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 19:07:37 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug26.183054.14146@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> <l9nl34INNhln@almaak.usc.edu> <25233@castle.ed.ac.uk>
  8. Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting
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  11. chas@castle.ed.ac.uk (C Spencer) writes:
  12. >Why does a pointer need to know what it's pointing to? Surely it's just
  13. >an address - if there was only one kind of pointer, there wouldn't be so
  14. >much to learn, and be confused by.
  15.  
  16. If you want assembler you know where to find it.
  17.  
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