RE origami ....

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1 total messages Started by "Phillip M. Hallam-Baker" Thu, 14 Mar 1991 14:13

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Author: "Phillip M. Hallam-Baker"
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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