From: Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: Ada Pointer Size Problem
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 01:56:28 GMT
Date: 2004-10-21T01:56:28+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gHEdd.2724$%h1.850@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u73en0l91p8b62ti3e59niij03t7nv8634@4ax.com>
Dave Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 05:18:58 GMT, Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> In C/++, a pointer is an int is an address. In Ada, they're 3
>> different things.
>
> But (unlike its predecessor B) a C pointer/address is not just an
> int.
I meant that a pointer is an int because you can always convert/assign a
pointer to an int.
--
Jeff Carter
"Ada has made you lazy and careless. You can write programs in C that
are just as safe by the simple application of super-human diligence."
E. Robert Tisdale
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-10 19:50 Ada Pointer Size Problem skidmarks
2004-10-11 1:38 ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-12 18:44 ` skidmarks
2004-10-13 1:23 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-13 8:07 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-13 16:27 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-10-11 5:18 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-21 1:16 ` Dave Thompson
2004-10-21 1:56 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2004-10-21 9:54 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-22 1:09 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-22 7:48 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-22 9:41 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-10-22 16:50 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-10-24 16:05 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-23 1:35 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-24 15:52 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-22 5:41 ` Simon Wright
2004-10-22 18:05 ` Mark Lorenzen
2004-11-01 8:14 ` Dave Thompson
2004-10-11 8:45 ` Martin Krischik
[not found] ` <1c2f5137.0410130505.57e03c@posting.google.com>
2004-10-13 13:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-14 3:46 ` Steve
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