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From: "Phillip M. Hallam-Baker"
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1991 14:13
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1991 14:13
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Dear net, This only obliquely concerns parallelism but all this hassle because people did not cast their mallocs properly reminds me of an article in parallelogram where a company was crowing over it's 64 bit database they had written for CRAY. They claimed that a lot of their competition could not do so because their programmers had used integers to hold pointers which is a limited value trick once your pointers get too big... just goes to show that moaning type checkers can be a real advantage! Phill Hallam-Baker PS just a thought... if that was the hole the were in why not just fudge the compiler to make all integers 64 bit ??? Still makes good advertising copy.
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