Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site harvard.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!breuel From: breuel@harvard.ARPA (Thomas M. Breuel) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: sizeof Message-ID: <363@harvard.ARPA> Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 20:23:55 EST Article-I.D.: harvard.363 Posted: Mon Feb 4 20:23:55 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 04:47:46 EST References: <8006@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Harvard University Lines: 12 > Does anybody other than Cottrell have difficulty coping > with various sizes of pointers? Yes, I do, and looking at UN*X source code for the VAX and the PDP I would believe that most of Berkley's programmers/students would also have problems. Of course, you can always work around sizeof(char *)!=sizeof(int *) (or sizeof(char *)!=sizeof(int)), but often it is a hassle, and it makes porting old (4.2BSD :-) source code very difficult. Thomas.