Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!robert From: robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: sizeof Message-ID: <110@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 21:17:02 EST Article-I.D.: gitpyr.110 Posted: Sat Feb 9 21:17:02 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 04:07:04 EST References: <8006@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Georgia Tech, Atlanta Lines: 22 >< Posted from Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)> Does anybody other than Cottrell have difficulty coping > with various sizes of pointers? I don't have difficulty with it, but I do feel that all pointers should be the same size. A pointer is a pointer, regardless of what it points to. It's a datatype all by itself; it isn't a mutation of the datatype it points to. Perhaps an addition to the language is in order (gotta have something to handle those Intel chips). Well, since C allows you to have 'long int', 'int' and 'short int', what about long pointers, pointers and short pointers? Don't ask me how they would be declared; I'll leave that up to someone else. robert -- Robert Viduya Georgia Institute of Technology ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!robert ...!{rlgvax,sb1,uf-cgrl,unmvax,ut-sally}!gatech!gitpyr!robert