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From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
Date: 1996/04/10
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Date: 1996-04-10T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <4kgunm$o4o@gde.GDEsystems.COM>, Chet  <kackman> wrote:
>If i = j depends on your unit of address. If i is assumed a longword then
>
>     &i + 4 = &j is true
>     not 
>     &i + 1 = &j

Are you serious or is this a (somewhat flat) continuation of the joke?

The &i expression yields a pointer to the type of i, and the pointer arithmetic
depends on this type.
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