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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Michael Torrie wrote:
> Technically C doesn't either, except via subroutines in libc, though C
> does have pointers which would be used to access memory.

The Pascal that Apple used had a way of casting an
int to a pointer, so you could do all the tricks
you can do with pointers in C.

-- 
Greg