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Message-ID: <20071201181859.346b3e03@the-village.bc.nu> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 18:18:59 +0000 From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com> Cc: David Newall <david@...idnewall.com>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.fr>, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>, Ben.Crowhurst@...llatravel.co.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C > Well, original C allowed you to do what you wanted with pointers (I used > to teach that back when K&R was "the" C manual). Now people which about > having pointers outside the array, which is a crock in practice, as long > as you don't actually /use/ an out of range value. Actually the standards had good reasons to bar this use, because many runtime environments used segmentation and unsigned segment offsets. On a 286 you could get into quite a mess with out of array reference tricks. > variable with the address of the start. I was more familiar with the B > stuff, I wrote both the interpreter and the code generator+library for > the 8080 and GE600 machines. B on MULTICS, those were the days... :-D B on Honeywell L66, so that may well have been a relative of your code generator ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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