Is &a[NTHINGS] legal

Doug Gwyn gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Thu May 5 04:10:35 AEST 1988


In article <1450 at iscuva.ISCS.COM> carlp at iscuva.ISCS.COM (Carl Paukstis) writes:
>=In article <7806 at brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>=# Every object must have at least one addressable cell beyond it,
>=# but not necessarily in front of it.  
>It seems, however, that there need not be an addressable OBJECT
>beyond the array bound, ... There must be a valid ADDRESS ...

I thought this was clear enough.  Obviously, if every object had to have
another finite object behind it, the existence of even one object would
force an infinity of them, which is patently absurd.  It's also not what
I said.



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