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From: Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Look what I caught! was re:Ada paper critic
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 17:56:12 GMT
Date: 2002-06-19T17:56:12+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D10C5D8.FFEBAFC9@san.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3D10C3E5.7FA3360C@despammed.com

Wes Groleau wrote:
> That's what I thought.  The original claim was in error.
> The correct statement is "such a pointer should not be dereferenced"

Well, alternately, "on some compilers, such a pointer will flag a
programming error if dereferenced". I've used (for example) C interpreters
that carried around more than just raw addresses, for obvious reasons.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-19 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-17 17:35 Look what I caught! was re:Ada paper critic Alderson, Paul A.
2002-06-17 18:31 ` Darren New
2002-06-17 21:40 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2002-06-17 23:14   ` Darren New
2002-06-18 14:49     ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-18 22:36     ` Vinzent Hoefler
2002-06-18 13:28   ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-24 19:17     ` Vinzent Hoefler
2002-06-18 19:16   ` Kevin Cline
2002-06-18 22:36     ` Vinzent Hoefler
2002-06-19 14:29       ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-19 16:59         ` Darren New
2002-06-19 17:48           ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-19 17:56             ` Darren New [this message]
2002-06-19 17:11         ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-06-19 19:31           ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-19 20:02             ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-24 15:23               ` Matthew Heaney
2002-06-19 19:37         ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-19 13:52 ` Ted Dennison
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