On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 11:43 -0400, Walt Farrell wrote: > Why would you want to do math on a pointer?
One example: in a COBOL program I wrote awhile ago, I process SMF type-30 records. Those records contain segments whose offsets are stored in fullwords - I address those segments by doing pointer arithmetic on the address of the SMF30 record. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
