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> > Windows 98 ... a success of the pointer-to-buffer macro-assemblers.

>Please don't blame assembler for Win98.  And there is nothing wrong
>about using pointers to buffers.  The trouble starts when you misuse
>them.

I don't blame assembler (it is of course necessary in some parts,
and generally carefully programmed), but over-used macro-assembler.
At a certain scale in a project one should have a rich typing, e.g.
arrays - the true ones, with bounds.

G.



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