Re: A curiosity...

[Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>]

Adam Beneschan wrote:
> This thread started with a comment about a tutorial that showed
> students the "right" way to accomplish a certain task.  What do you
> want to bet that this tutorial didn't say "This works only for such-
> and-such implementations"

The distinction between right and wrong that the tutorial
was making was about not having multiple threads access a
shared object because of unpredictable timing. I doubt that
there has ever been a C implementation on any architecture
where it was wrong to convert a small integer to pointer
and back.