Re: detecting invalid pointers

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1989 17:45

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In article <15495@cup.portal.com> Kevin_P_McCarty@cup.portal.com writes:
>Is there any guaranteed way to detect an out of range pointer,
>i.e., one which is supposed to point into an array but might not?

No.  There simply is no way to do this portably, since the results of
pointer comparisons (ignoring NULL for the moment) are well-defined only
within the array.
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: detecting invalid pointers
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