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[Robert Viduya]

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Posted from  Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn at BRL-VLD.ARPA>
> Does anybody other than Cottrell have difficulty coping
> with various sizes of pointers?

I don't have difficulty with it, but I do feel that all pointers should
be the same size.  A pointer is a pointer, regardless of what it points to.
It's a datatype all by itself; it isn't a mutation of the datatype it points
to.

Perhaps an addition to the language is in order (gotta have something to
handle those Intel chips).  Well, since C allows you to have 'long int',
'int' and 'short int', what about long pointers, pointers and short pointers?
Don't ask me how they would be declared; I'll leave that up to someone
else.
			robert
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Robert Viduya
Georgia Institute of Technology

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