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From:         Doug Gwyn <gwyn at brl-smoke.arpa>
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To:           Vic Kapella <SXJVK at ALASKA>

In article <124 at polygen.UUCP> pablo at polygen.uucp (Pablo Halpern) writes:
>Perhaps ANSI should add the restriction that all pointer types must be
>the same size in an effort to "codify common existing practice."

But it isn't existing practice.

If you mean, non-portable, buggy code is existing practice, well yes,
but so what?  That certainly shouldn't serve as the basis for a standard.