Pointer comparison question

[Henry Spencer]

In article <7613 at cup.portal.com> Jeffrey_J_Vanepps at cup.portal.com writes:
>K&R says that you can't reliably compare pointers to one another unless
>they both point into the same array. But later they do just that in a
>storage allocator. Is this a real discrepancy or am I hallucinating?

For "reliably", read "portably".  Storage allocators are non-portable by
definition, as you have discovered.
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