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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Difference between these pointer syntaxes
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Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:

> It is to stop soldiers from stepping out of the array that sentinels
> are posted at either end. The one at the top end is called the
> buffer-high soldier, and the one at the other end is called the
> buffer-low soldier.

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