Proposed Enhancement to select/case (yes, I know...)

[Alex Martelli]

karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:

	...omitted...
>% Lots of people don't bother to cast pointers before handing them to a
>  prototypeless free(); this fails on word-addressible architectures, which is
>  probably a more likely situation than non-ASCII.  One's complement is my
>  personal bugaboo; I have no idea how much of my code it would break.

More likely?!?!  I'd bet there's twice as many IBM 370-compatibles and 
AS/400's and their ilk out there, than word-addressible machines AND
one's-complement ones *put together* (at least by some measure, say
dollar value of all programs yearly purchased for said machines,
which should be an interesting one for venal programmers...:-).

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