> Well, original C allowed you to do what you wanted with pointers (I used > to teach that back when K&R was "the" C manual). Now people which about > having pointers outside the array, which is a crock in practice, as long > as you don't actually /use/ an out of range value.
Actually the standards had good reasons to bar this use, because many runtime environments used segmentation and unsigned segment offsets. On a 286 you could get into quite a mess with out of array reference tricks. > variable with the address of the start. I was more familiar with the B > stuff, I wrote both the interpreter and the code generator+library for > the 8080 and GE600 machines. B on MULTICS, those were the days... :-D B on Honeywell L66, so that may well have been a relative of your code generator ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/