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Hi Bill,

>> 2. The cc65 optimizer (always compile with -O) knows about "pointer
>> constants" (in contrast to pointer variables) so the code to access
>> them is usually faster/smaller.

> I'm not sure where a pointer constant would be used in a C program.

I meant the term in this sense...

An integer variable:
int a

An integer constant:
5

Setting the variable to the constant:
a = 5

A pointer variable:
int *b

A pointer constant:
int c[10]

Setting the variable to the constant:
b = c

What I state above means that using c is faster/smaller than using b like
this:
*c = 2
*b = 2

Regards,
Oliver