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- From: draper@ais.org (Patrick Draper)
- Subject: Re: m2 for scientific computation
- Message-ID: <Bu76no.Gq3@ais.org>
- Organization: UMCC
- References: <21407.2AA8073F@puddle.fidonet.org>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 07:40:33 GMT
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- In article <21407.2AA8073F@puddle.fidonet.org> Peter.Froehlich@p100.f71.n246.z2.fidonet.org (Peter Froehlich) writes:
- >
- >Why should I want to convert a POINTER TO INTEGER into a POINTER
- >TO CHAR anyway? A well-designed application has (IMHO) no need
- >for doing this...
- >
- >By(T)e...
- > Peter...
- >
- >-- THE ANSWER V2.03
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- >uucp: uunet!m2xenix!puddle!2!246!71.100!Peter.Froehlich
- >Internet: Peter.Froehlich@p100.f71.n246.z2.fidonet.org
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- A well designed application might never need to do that, I agree. However,
- Modula-2 is also a *systems* programming language!
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- If I am programming a device that is block mapped, it might be efficient to
- handle my memory 32 bits (integer)) at a time. However, if I need to do
- other operations on that memory, it might be more efficient to use 8 bits at
- a time. You can see that a simple pointer conversion will allow me to do
- both.
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