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| From | Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers |
| Date | 2015-11-17 18:46 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <n2fsic$eth$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 17/11/15 18:36, Geoff wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 18:21:48 +0000, Richard Heathfield
> <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 17/11/15 18:17, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>>> On 17-Nov-15 10:49, Alla _ wrote:
>>>> I have seen many times the following declaration of pointers to
>>>> arrays, advised without any caveats:
>>>>
>>>> int numbers[8];
>>>> int *ptr;
>>>>
>>>> ptr = numbers + 8; // to point at a value stored at numbers[8]
>>>>
>>>> Please, take a look at a paragraph from K&R, stating that this method
>>>> doesn't work on "multi-tasking machines". Given K&R was published in
>>>> 1999, I wonder if that statement still holds.
>>>
>>> It might have been in K&R1, published in 1978,
>>
>> Unlikely.
>>
>>> but that has been
>>> obsolete since ANSI C in 1989; it's not in K&R2, published in 1999.
>>
>> Published *when*? Citation most definitely required!
>
> "The C Programming Language" Second Edition ISBN 0-13-110362-8,
> Prentice Hall Software Series bears Copyright 1988.
if(1999 == 1988)
{
puts("Okay, fair enough.");
}
else
{
puts("I rest my case.");
}
--
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 08:49 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-11-17 12:36 -0500
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-17 17:47 +0000
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:34 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-17 12:16 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-11-17 15:23 -0500
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:33 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-17 09:41 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-17 10:03 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-17 20:31 +0000
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-17 12:53 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:32 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-17 18:45 +0000
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:53 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-17 15:05 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Philip Lantz <prl@canterey.us> - 2015-11-19 21:16 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Anand Hariharan <mailto.anand.hariharan@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 15:47 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-11-17 15:53 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-18 04:05 +0000
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-11-17 19:41 +0000
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-11-17 12:17 -0600
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-17 18:21 +0000
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-17 10:36 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-17 18:46 +0000
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:49 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:47 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-17 18:51 +0000
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:55 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-17 11:59 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-11-17 12:58 -0600
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-17 19:12 +0000
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-11-17 19:33 +0000
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Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-17 18:31 +0000
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:39 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:40 -0800
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Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-11-17 15:32 -0500
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-17 15:09 -0800
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Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-11-17 23:18 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-17 17:18 -0800
Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-11-17 22:37 -0500
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Re: Issue on assigning address to pointers Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-18 06:13 -0800
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