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Article #1649Re: Proposed Enhancement to select/case (yes, I know...)
From: Alex Martelli
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 1990 17:47
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 1990 17:47
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karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes: ...omitted... >% Lots of people don't bother to cast pointers before handing them to a > prototypeless free(); this fails on word-addressible architectures, which is > probably a more likely situation than non-ASCII. One's complement is my > personal bugaboo; I have no idea how much of my code it would break. More likely?!?! I'd bet there's twice as many IBM 370-compatibles and AS/400's and their ilk out there, than word-addressible machines AND one's-complement ones *put together* (at least by some measure, say dollar value of all programs yearly purchased for said machines, which should be an interesting one for venal programmers...:-). -- Alex Martelli - CAD.LAB s.p.a., v. Stalingrado 45, Bologna, Italia Email: (work:) staff@cadlab.sublink.org, (home:) alex@am.sublink.org Phone: (work:) ++39 (51) 371099, (home:) ++39 (51) 250434; Fax: ++39 (51) 366964 (work only; any time of day or night).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!deejay!gear!cadlab!staff From: staff@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Proposed Enhancement to select/case (yes, I know...) Message-ID: <263@cadlab.sublink.ORG> Date: 6 Sep 90 17:47:56 GMT References: <1990Aug30.164610.3519@zoo.toronto.edu> <13714@smoke.BRL.MIL> <MEISSNER.90Aug31102441@osf.osf.org> <13719@smoke.BRL.MIL> <17628 Organization: CAD.LAB, Bologna, Italia Lines: 19