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Re: Pointers as 3-tuples

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From: brnstnd
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 1990 21:07
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In article <14330@lambda.UUCP> jlg@lambda.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:
> I want pointers to behave as addresses
> within the linear address space presented to the user by the system.

Ugh. I want pointers to behave as addresses within particular objects,
like ANSI says they do. I don't care about the arrangement of those
objects within memory; why do you? (Leave device drivers aside for this
discussion; they're neither portable nor meant to be portable.)

---Dan
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Subject: Re: Pointers as 3-tuples
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Date: 12 Apr 90 21:07:18 GMT
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