Re: normalization of pointers...

On Wed, 30 May 2007 21:31:11 +0100, in comp.lang.c , "Malcolm McLean"
<regniztar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Chris Dollin" <chris.dollin@xxxxxx> wrote in message
I didn't say "old compilers", either. I understood this /feature/
to be largely /obsolete/; perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps it depends
on the scope of the "largely".

Most people program PCs most of the time,

I beg to differ. Most people I know programme functionality not
hardware.
And I betcha the number of salaried embedded programmers still
outweighs wintelers.

--
Mark McIntyre

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan
.

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