Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Dec 2007 18:18:59 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C |
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> 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 ?
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