Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:28:11 -0500 Message-ID: <4DF1F1BD.2E50@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:28:13 -0400 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: pointer = &membuff[-2]; References: <1bsjrimxk0.fsf@snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 12 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.154.219.61 X-Trace: sv3-XYuapxf/HFCaQTJYHu3LubS3u+GaeGo40TgmUsMqpFC6Zhxu1nL6AZKm1JoKG1YAMUu6OpOGAte8bmX!cFKQ9yFsocyqWCgal0IX7NyX25Km0w8KGpVsyKK4q1qKEsdfIJLwgxOLlQ7SWgQfAuj2VM5s2M4W!cHAQ9IKzkQ== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1275 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:5784 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > "Bo S." writes: > > > pointer = &buffer[-2]; /* is it really -2, or 4294967294 */ > > If it's a 32 bit system, does it matter? It really is -2. -- pete