Re: Pointer comparisons

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From: Fergus James HENDERSON
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 14:14

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larsn@Autodesk.COM (Lars Nyman) writes:

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>Thus, I cannot even trust that a '!=' test will return 1 for two objects
>that are not the same !

That is the only possible interpretation of the ARM (as it currently
stands).

>This must surely be wrong... can somebody, please, correct me and explain
>what I'm overlooking.

The definition of objects being "the same" is not clear.

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