From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Look what I caught! was re:Ada paper critic
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:31:04 GMT
Date: 2002-06-19T19:31:04+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcc7kkv5amf.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: FW2Q8.893$iG4.643@nwrddc04.gnilink.net
"Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net> writes:
> Also, the standard only requires a valid pointer to the point just after the
> end of an array; no similar rule applies to the beginning of the array. For
> example, if you declare
>
> PLANET *before_mercury = solar_system - 1;
>
> then the standard does NOT require that before_mercury compare meaningfully
> with the addresses of the solar_system elements.
Really? I thought the above was OK. The STL of C++ depends heavily on
this idiom. Is this a difference between C and C++? If so, what's the
rationale (in C)?
- Bob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-19 19:31 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
2002-06-19 17:11 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-06-19 19:31 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
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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