From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 7 Sep 93 21:22:22 GMT From: slinky.cs.nyu.edu!slinky.cs.nyu.edu!nobody@nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: obj'size for constants Message-ID: <26iu2e$phs@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu> List-Id: Tell the pesky user to buzz off. It is clear that returning 0 is OK, raising Program_Error might be even kinder, since the user is doing something that makes no sense whatsoever. Note that in 9X, you could specify that the constant is aliased, in which case, it is in memory and has an address.