NULL vs 0 - chapter and verse
Mike Tilson
mike at hcr.UUCP
Fri Feb 17 12:44:14 AEST 1984
Pointer subtraction on a 16/32 bit implementation does not break the
standard; it is simply an implementation restriction. The subtraction
of two 32 bit pointers may well yield a 16 bit int -- so what? In
practice, that means that under such an implementation it is unreasonable
to have single storage objects with more than 16 bit's worth of elements.
That is a restriction, not a logical inconsistency.
/Mike Tilson decvax!hcr!hcrvax!mike
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