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Article #1749Re: Re: C's sins of commission
From: Marc Sabatella
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 1990 16:06
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 1990 16:06
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>>[...] But, addresses >>aren't particularly important to me. I almost never need to know >>or manipulate them in any way. So, why do I need a data type who's >>values are addresses? > > (a) Because, although *you* may not, *others* may, or may think > they do, or may simply prefer to think of things that way. Count me in. I write pretty low level code. Dynamic linker/loaders, etc. Darn tootin' I care about addresses. Pretty useful when doing symbolic relocation. -------------- Marc Sabatella (marc@hpmonk.fc.hp.com) Disclaimers: 2 + 2 = 3, for suitably small values of 2 Bill and Dave may not always agree with me
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpfcso!mjs From: mjs@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Re: C's sins of commission Message-ID: <8960017@hpfcso.HP.COM> Date: 17 Oct 90 16:06:42 GMT References: <2883@igloo.scum.com> Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA Lines: 17