"Numerical Recipes in C" is nonportable code

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1988Sep15.145026.20325 at ateng.uucp>, chip at ateng.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> According to peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva):
> >But nobody says you have to load the selector into a selector register
> >just to compute an address.

> More to the point:  The dpANS says you (the implementor) are _allowed_ to
> load the selector into a selector register when computing the address.  To
> do otherwise could slow down register-intensive pointer manipulation.

OK, then, I withdraw my objection to the original message. Since
there is no portable method of declaring non-zero-based arrays in 'C',
and since the code generation task for using such is trivial, they should
be added.
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