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From: breuel@harvard.ARPA (Thomas M. Breuel)
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Subject: Re:  sizeof
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Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 20:23:55 EST
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> 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.