Re: Pointer arithmetic error

[David Given <dg@cowlark.com>]

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Chris Li wrote:
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> I don't think so. The offset part of the ptr_add op is mean to be the
> absolute offset, not how many element of the pointer index. In other
> words, it is how many address number it need to add.

Hmm. True. But even so, it's still not right on my system, which doesn't
use 8-bit bytes. (It's word addressable where each word can contain any
value, so sizeof(int) == sizeof(double) == sizeof(char) == 1.)

Should there, then, be another symbol to define the number of bits in a
byte, distinct from the number of bits in a char?

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