pointer checking

[Bill Crews]

In article <20432 at amdcad.AMD.COM> phil at amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>In article <228 at gandalf.littlei.UUCP> martin at littlei.UUCP (martin) writes:
>>I do not want to start another net wars, but I am tired of seeing
>>people write programs that are non-portable between C compilers.
>
>The problem is not in the program but in your compiler and/or your
>understanding of C. But I shouldn't be surprised, considering that you
>are posting from an Intel site, you're probably using a brain-damaged
>processor. It wouldn't be an 8088, would it?

I am trying to discourage this discussion in this group, but I must correct the
misimpression created by your article.  While I am certainly no fan of Intel
processor architectures, martin's example of if(ptr) is not a problem on any of
the C compilers I have ever used on Intel machines (Microsoft, Lattice, DeSmet,
etc).  If it were, the compiler would not be for the C language.

-bc
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