Whose code should we break? ( was Re: 64 bit C )

Richard Tobin richard at aiai.ed.ac.uk
Thu Feb 21 03:43:48 AEST 1991


In article <4754 at lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard at thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>Operating on pointers as though they had no meaning beyond their numeric
>value is inherently nonportable, and if you do that, you deserve to lose.

So everyone who writes a nonportable program deserves to lose?

-- Richard
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