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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: pointer arithmetics and casts
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 05:22:19 +0100
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On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 12:44:09PM +0900, Neil Booth wrote:
 
> Perhaps not overloading the "+" node; reserve that for arithmetic types.
> Have a ptr_add, (maybe) ptr_sub, and ptr_diff operations.

Making the scaling a part of operation?  It means interesting logics
at later stages, though...